Filipa Gonçalves Viegas

Medical psychiatrist, currently coordinator of a community mental health team.

She also completed the Advanced Intensive Specialization in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies: Assessment and Intervention (CRIAP); Postgraduate Course in Neuroimaging for Psychiatrists (Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health); Postgraduate Course in Grief Management; Postgraduate Course on Global Mental Health – Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health; Training in Perinatal Psychiatry (Dr. Cátia Acosta, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital), Training in Geriatrics, among others.

In her work, she advocates that the treatment of mental illness includes a deeply personal and unique process of changing attitudes, values, and goals, so that the person can live a fulfilling, hopeful, and contributing life, even with limitations caused by the illness. This process involves the development of new meanings and purposes as one grows beyond the effects of mental illness, always in collaboration with various specialist professionals for a more comprehensive intervention.