Lucia Helena A. Abdalla -Clinical psychologist (PUC - Rio/1986) - has been counseling children, adolescents and adults for the last 22 years. Her outstanding academic formation includes several post-graduation courses and specializations such as: Clinical Specialization in Young people and Children’s Mental Health (PUC - Rio/1994.1), Specialization in Psychology Applied to Cardiology (CSV/RJ/1998), Formation in Family Therapy (ITF-RJ/2000.1), specialization in Family Psycho-education, with a project on Bipolar Humor Disorder CMI/CSV/RJ/2004. She has taken part in a number of research projects in Medical Societies, hospitals and clinics as well as at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro like, “A Biopsychosocial multidisciplinary approach to the therapeutic of the obese patient” – Obesity and overweight treated as risk factors of chronic pathologies - UFRJ/NESC/2001, and supervised a research project of accompaniment of patients submitted to Angioplasty - HCL/RJ/2000/200.

Her interest in the Theory of Systems dates back to the year 1992 when she delved in its study with the psychologist Regina Schoemer Jardim.

Her CV includes the third prize of the Dr. Genival Londres Award - CEGEL/CSV/RJ, in the area of studies and research of Medical Sciences, with the Project “Systemic Intervention in the Supporting Net of the Patient after a 1st CVA”, in 1999.

During the development of that project, and already involved with the narrative approach, she joined the psychologist Ana Novis Luiza in the research project “the Brief Systemic Intervention as a significant complementation in the Therapeutic of Chronic Patients” SCM/RJ/2000.

In 1997 her counseling included a new format, with the Medical Family Therapy, with sessions taking place in her private practice, hospitals and homes of patients rehabilitating from acute /chronic organic manifestations linked to secondary and/or primary depression. This work was described as multidisciplinary, focal and systemic, and aimed at characterizing the communication between the identified patients and their significant social net (family and professionals of health).

At present, alongside her private practice, she has been giving family and individual counseling to patients in rehab in the Habilitarem Clinic/RJ. Since her first encounter with the numerous possibilities of Narrative Therapy, she has been involved in works that aim at magnifying the narrative approach, and is currently involved in the development of the research project “Recycling Minds” with the SCM/RJ and other fields.