Luciane Borges Da Silva is a clinical psychologist with more than 15 years experience working in public services and in private practice. 

In private practice she sees patients in both English and Portuguese. 

Before moving to London, she worked for over 10 years as a clinical psychologist for the Public Health Service in Brazil. She worked as part of MDT in secondary care, with patients from all age groups and with complex mental health problems including psychosis, PTSD, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, youth offending and personality disorders. 

Whilst she is a dedicated clinician, she has a background and interest in research. While graduating, she spent two years carrying out qualitative research in the field of Social Representation, funded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq. 

In 2014 she finished a masters degree in psychoanalysis at UEL/The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She wrote and received a distinction for her dissertation on clinical depression entitled: ‘A Psychoanalytic Reflection on the Tendency towards Death in Depression (with reference to Lars Von Trier’s film 'Melancholia’). 

She has experience working in different settings within the NHS, including service for adult refugees with PTSD, in CAMHS inpatient services for young people with complex needs and eating disorders and in neurodevelopment teams, assessing children for ASD and ADHD. 

She is also a human rights activist and has been involved for decades helping charities that offer support to children in need, women suffering domestic violence, the Brazilian agrarian reform movement as well as being a voluntary translator for the United Nations.