ABOUT US

About Us
WE REALIZE THAT,

There are pains that cross generations
because no one learned to talk about them.

Looking at the root

Understanding our history helps us realise what we have learned, what we repeat, and what we want to transform.

Naming what we feel

We were not always taught to talk about emotions. Creating space to recognise them is also a way of taking care of psychological health.

Breaking cycles consciously

Not everything we received from previous generations needs to continue. We can preserve our values and at the same time build healthier ways of living and relating.

Growing without losing identity

Taking care of ourselves does not mean abandoning our roots. It means knowing them, valuing them, and consciously choosing the path we want to build.

FOUNDER OF ALMA VIVA PSY

Psychologist
Dircelena Martins Landim

Dircelena Martins Landim

As a child, she experienced the loss of her father in an accident. A striking experience that, throughout her growth, contributed to a very particular understanding of the fragility and value of life. She learned that not everything can be solved through material goods and that presence, bonds, care, and what we build emotionally with others have an irreplaceable value.

She completed secondary school in Cape Verde and, in 2009, went to Portugal to continue her studies. She graduated in Psychology from the Portuguese Catholic University and completed a Master's in Justice Psychology in 2015.

Her professional career has passed through different contexts and populations. She developed experience in victim support, vulnerable contexts, psychosocial intervention, education, and human relations. In Cape Verde, she was also a university lecturer, teaching the course of Psychology of Interpersonal Relations.

Her journey between Cape Verde, Portugal, and later Luxembourg allowed her to learn, not only through training but also through her own experience, the challenges of migration, adaptation, belonging, and building an identity between different cultures.

In Luxembourg, she continued to invest in her training, including EU-PROMENS – European Programme in Mental Health, basic and advanced level training (2025–2026), as well as training in transculturality. She is a member of the Société Luxembourgeoise de Psychologie (SLP).

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Mission

To promote the mental health and psychological well-being of the Portuguese-speaking community through an ethical, scientifically based and culturally sensitive intervention. Alma Viva Psy seeks to bring Psychology closer to people, reduce the stigma associated with seeking help, and develop prevention, awareness and community intervention responses.

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Vision

To be a reference in the promotion of mental health among the Portuguese-speaking community in Luxembourg, recognised for the quality of its intervention, human proximity, valuing the mother tongue, and the ability to work in partnership with families, professionals and institutions.

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Values

  • Ethics and professional responsibility
  • Respect for the dignity, individuality and diversity of each person
  • Confidentiality and privacy protection
  • Scientific rigor and continuous training
  • Active listening, empathy and non-judgement
  • Valuing the mother tongue and cultural identity
  • Prevention and promotion of mental health
  • Autonomy, inclusion and networking
OUR SPECIALISTS

Meet our mental health professionals

Ubeid Una

Dircelena Martins Landim

Psychologist

GENERAL APPROACH OF OUR PROJECT

HOW WE DEVELOP OUR INTERVENTION

We start from a careful assessment of the needs of each person, family, group or organisation.

From this understanding, we define clear objectives and an intervention plan tailored to each reality, using psychological and practical strategies that promote awareness, autonomy and possible changes.

Alma Viva Psy was born from a real story and a need long lived in silence. Its founder grew up in a reality where many people learned to endure, to hide what they felt and not to talk about what happened at home. Women taught to endure, men taught not to cry and children afraid to tell what they lived.

For a long time, seeking a psychologist was associated, in many families, with weakness, shame or the idea of 'madness'. Faced with this reality, the desire arose to do things differently and to create a space where people can speak, be heard and understood without judgement.

Alma Viva Psy brings Psychology closer to the community, with particular attention to the Portuguese-speaking reality, respecting language, culture, roots, family history and the migratory experience.

More than a Psychology office, it represents a commitment to promoting psychological health, preventing suffering and creating new ways of talking about mental health.

Alma Viva Psy is a Psychology practice and a project dedicated to the promotion of psychological health, founded in Luxembourg by Dircelena Martins Landim.

The intervention is based on a human and professional understanding of the person, taking into account their life history, relationships, identity, culture and experiences that influence how they feel, think and relate.

In addition to psychological counselling, Alma Viva Psy develops prevention, awareness, training and mental health promotion actions with families, schools, companies, associations, communities and institutions.

"Alma Viva" represents what remains alive in each person, even after pain, fear, loss and difficult experiences. It also represents people who, for a long time, lived their suffering in silence and seek a space to recover their voice, their dignity and the possibility of change.

"Psy" identifies Psychology as the scientific and professional basis of the project.

Together, these two elements translate what Alma Viva Psy seeks to represent: a Psychology that recognises suffering, but also looks at the history, resources and capabilities of each person.

At Alma Viva Psy, working on the root means looking beyond what appears on the surface. What a person feels today may be related to their life story, the relationships they have had, their family, culture, losses, beliefs and experiences accumulated over time.

Therefore, we seek to understand the person as a whole: where they come from, what they have lived, what they have learned about themselves and others, the patterns that repeat, and also the resources they have developed throughout life.

Working on the root does not mean being stuck in the past. It means understanding what needs to be cared for, recognising what can be transformed, and discovering the resources and strengths that are already part of one's own history.
Every path is unique. Every story deserves to be heard.

VOICES OF THOSE WHO WALKED WITH US

At Alma Viva Psy, each person is welcomed in their story, their culture and their reality. These testimonies share, through the words of those who experienced the support, a little of that journey of discovery, change and reconstruction.