Pia Hylén Psychologist

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Pia Hylén Psychologist

English-speaking psychologist and psychoanalyst in greater Lisbon area, Setúbal and Azeitão. On-line and in vivo.

Helping expats, nomads, English and French speakers with anxiety, depression or burnout symptons - adapting to a new culture and lifestyles. I’m a psychologist trained at UC Berkeley, University of Copenhagen, Cornell Medical Center, and École de la Cause Freudienne, Paris. I specialize in helping people clarify their emotions and transform the way they connect with others. Whether you're facing life challenges, feeling overwhelmed, or seeking to understand yourself better, therapy provides a space to gain clarity and develop solutions. In therapy, we’ll examine issues together, looking at specific elements while considering the bigger picture. My approach supports you in bridging the gap between your thoughts and emotions, integrating these parts to create a more harmonious, authentic self. If you’re ready to explore change, I’m here to help.

25/01/2026

> Thailand teaches something the West keeps forgetting: that peace is not the result of mastering life, but of loosening one’s grip on it. In the Thai way of living — the smile that doesn’t explain itself, the patience that doesn’t demand recognition — desire is allowed to circulate without constantly having to justify itself. From a Lacanian angle, this is a culture less obsessed with filling the lack, more attuned to living alongside it. And in that coexistence with lack, something rare emerges: not happiness as performance, but a quiet internal peace that doesn’t need an audience.

23/01/2026

Analysis can hurt because it interrupts what usually protects you.
It loosens the stories that keep desire quiet.
What speaks instead is the unconscious — and it’s not always polite.

21/01/2026

Insight doesn’t stop repetition.
What returns is asking to be heard.
So keep listening.

20/01/2026

When life feels heavy or the path isn’t clear, don’t turn away. Don’t silence your desire. The real act is to choose—to name what you want and move toward it. Plan your life not as a series of compromises, but as a space where your desire can speak and be heard. It is not about having all the answers - it is about daring to ask the right questions—and living the answers you find.

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17/01/2026

Silence in analysis isn’t empty—it’s where desire begins to speak. In the pause, something beyond explanation can emerge, if we allow it. Silence gives space for the unconscious to surface, without being rushed into meaning.

14/01/2026

Sometimes anxiety appears precisely when you are alone, because the Other’s noise falls silent.
Without demands, messages, or mirrors, the subject comes face to face with something more intimate: the lack that structures desire.
Anxiety is not caused by absence itself, but by what emerges when the symbolic support of the Other loosens.
In solitude, what was covered by routine can suddenly look back at you.

07/01/2026

On dating apps, the many appear all at once — a shimmering illusion of abundance.
Faces flicker past like lights seen from a moving train, each promising something, none asking for time.
But desire doesn’t rush. It lingers, listens, returns.
Choose carefully: one encounter, one conversation, one meeting — and then another, if something insists.
Whether you’re swiping alone at night or sitting in a crowded café, what matters is not how many appear, but who remains.

04/01/2026

Élie de Rothschild writes from inside the family and adopts a deliberately sober, almost understated tone. Rather than conspiracy or intrigue, he emphasizes continuity, discipline, discretion, and work as the real foundations of the Rothschild legacy. The book insists that what appears mysterious from the outside is largely the result of long-term strategy, tight family cohesion, and a cultivated refusal of publicity.

03/01/2026

"I lost you... what a loss." 🖤 Lacan says we don't just lose a person; we lose the part of ourselves we saw in them. The "spark" is gone, leaving only the "dark" of our own desire.

29/12/2025

> When you help someone, something in you is lifted too. In dark times, the light is only now coming back, even a small gesture toward the Other can matter.

27/12/2025

Gratitude lifts us into a wider space.
When we turn toward what we have, something settles inside us.
What is missing no longer pulls so hard.
We become more grounded, more at ease.
And from there, life is lighter.

22/12/2025

Are you alone?
Don’t pity yourself.
Treat yourself well.
Make a hot chocolate or a vin chaud.
Give yourself a small gift.
Be generous and kind — also to yourself.
You don’t have to cry.
Let yourself enjoy the beauty of Christmas.

Endereço

Rua Pinheiro Chagas 48, 4
Lisbon
1050-179

Website

http://2piahylen.com/

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