PhD in Psychology with an European Doctorate in the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Psychology, specialising in Clinical Psychology - Family Psychology and Family Interventions from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra and the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon, she is a clinical psychologist at the Red Cross Hospital in Lisbon. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maia and a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic of Leiria. She has been involved in various research centres over the years and was a doctoral researcher hired by the University of Aveiro.
She is chair of the ethics committee at the Cruz Vermelha Hospital, Associate Editor of the BMC Psychology journal. She is the author of several publications in indexed journals and has supervised several master's theses over the years.