MSc. Helder Placido Santos, Zürich
Psychologist FSP
Couples & Sex Therapist
Leistungsspektrum
I offer psychological consultations for adults and couples in Zürich and online.
My work focuses particularly on stress and burnout, relationship difficulties, intimacy and sexuality, and challenging life transitions.
Individual consultations may address stress, burnout, emotional wellbeing, relationship patterns, sexuality and intimacy, life changes, and the impact of demanding professional lives on personal wellbeing.
Couples consultations support partners experiencing communication difficulties, recurring conflict, changes in intimacy or desire, trust concerns, sexual difficulties, or transitions in their relationship.
Sexological consultation provides an open and non-judgmental space to explore sexuality, desire, arousal, sexual functioning, intimacy, sexual wellbeing and different relationship structures.
I also work with work-related wellbeing, particularly where sustained professional pressure, stress or burnout begins to affect wellbeing, relationships or life outside work.
My approach is psychologically grounded, relational, inclusive and somatically informed, and adapted to the individual needs and goals of each person or couple.
Fachrichtung
Couples and relationship counselling; sex counselling and sexual wellbeing; intimacy and desire; relationship and communication difficulties; consensual non-monogamy and diverse relationship structures; LGBTQIA+ and GSRD-affirmative practice; stress and burnout; work-related wellbeing; life transitions; somatically informed and embodied approaches.
Weitere Informationen für den Patienten
Reaching out for psychological support does not require having everything figured out beforehand. We can use the first consultation to understand what is happening, what you would like to change, and whether working together feels appropriate.
I welcome adults and couples from diverse cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities and relationship structures, including consensual non-monogamy.
Consultations are available in English, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as German at B2 level. Online consultations are also available.
I am a psychologist (MSc) and member of the Swiss Federation of Psychologists (FSP). My academic background is in Work and Organisational Psychology, complemented by further training in couples and sex therapy, Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity (GSRD), somatic sexology and related approaches.
Sessions are generally privately paid rather than billed through compulsory Swiss health insurance.