Alexandra Oliveira Paiva
Alexandra Oliveira Paiva
Co-founder, Psychologist, PsyD
Dr. Alexandra Oliveira Paiva, clinical psychologist, is the co-founder of L’espace clinic and obtained her doctorate in psychology from the University of Quebec in Montreal. She completed her clinical training at the Allan Memorial institute and her approach draws from cognitive behavioural as well as psychodynamic therapies.
Alexandra parallels the therapeutic process with unfiltered and courageous story telling. She believes that our unique life story contributes to defining who we are and holds the key to understanding our suffering. Whether it is the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we are sometimes afraid to face or the unfinished stories we have yet to discover, we all have a personal history that shapes us.
Through a warm, safe, and genuine relationship, Alexandra invites her clients to freely explore and reconnect with their own life story and to discover how it influences current emotions, thoughts, and behaviours. Her straightforward and authentic therapeutic interventions guide clients to understand themselves more deeply, and to become authors of their ongoing narrative. Ultimately, client and therapist work together towards gently rewriting the client’s story in a way that feels true and that allows past, present, and future to co-exist harmoniously.