Testimonials

Through therapy, I began to believe in my abilities and improved, making peace with life. I underwent regressive hypnosis therapy, many therapies to work on my personality, and learned various self-confidence and emotional self-control exercises, which I still do today because they are very helpful and important for gaining control of my illness. They also helped me build trust in myself, others, and the world, as I had many traumas that led me to be very distrustful. I learned meditation, which I consider very important for falling asleep (I had suffered from severe insomnia for a long time). Dr. Marco helped me acquire discipline, something that was very difficult for me. In this way, I was able to integrate various activities into my life, which, along with the therapies, allowed me to return to an active life, enrolling in a vocational course and a gym, becoming an active person who fulfills my responsibilities and schedules. I gained a new perspective on life and the world around me, and I began to accept the idea of facing life's challenges, something unthinkable for me before, as I had an enormous fear of ridicule and of not being able to cope with the situations that arose. Today I have found inner peace, I have started to have feelings (I always had a feeling of emptiness) and, above all, I have found a balance within myself, which, due to my diagnosis, I thought was impossible. Thank you, Dr. Marcos, and never stop being who you are!

From that day on, my daughter ceased to have a normal life and began a life full of fears, objections, and rules that hadn't existed before. As time passed, and to complicate matters further, she began to develop symptoms of psychosis and epileptic seizures without warning. Her brain lost control, medications stopped working, and test after test yielded results that denied the existence of epilepsy. The medication for this problem was pushed to its maximum dosage, and it was then that a doctor confirmed she had epilepsy and needed medication for her nervous system, sleep, and depression. Sara began to live a "lifeless" life; she would sleep and wake up without knowing who she was or what she should do. After years, and numerous consultations with private doctors and in hospitals, nothing worked. They only said she had to be hospitalized and placed under someone's care. I was so tired of hearing that it wasn't possible to treat Sara that I decided to look for less conventional therapies. I found two therapies that worked, and the last one was with therapist Marco. With Marco, she started having three sessions a week, and I began to notice differences in the first few weeks. In the first month, she could already speak normally and read. In the following months, the seizures decreased, she was already writing daily reports, and enthusiasm and joy were evident. The epileptic seizures and the symptoms of psychosis became much less frequent and weaker. Sara even went nine months without seizures, and until recently, they were almost every week. Contrary to what many doctors told me, Sara improved significantly with therapist Marco Mateus. Starting these sessions was a financial effort, but it was a crucial step in our lives for me to realize that my daughter had a solution. Sara started treatment with therapist Marco Mateus when she was 28 years old, and the treatment lasted almost a year. At 29 years old and much more settled, she came to live with me in Germany, and here she began another treatment and has more appropriate neurological care that we hadn't found in Portugal. Sara is stable and became a mother, which was considered impossible given her condition. We can only express our eternal gratitude from the bottom of our hearts to therapist Marco Mateus for his contribution and help us on this journey.

I managed to gain more control over my thoughts and emotions, increase my self-esteem, and from then on my life changed considerably. This transformation was fundamental to my journey on a personal and professional level; I started down a different path than I had before. I became a person with a more active social life and was able to pursue a profession that fulfills and accomplishes me.

A friend told me she knew someone who could help me, someone who did a different kind of work. I decided to try it; I didn't have much to lose, because when you get to that point you've already lost the most important thing: the will to live. I found the relaxed atmosphere of the consultations and the somewhat playful way they unfolded strange, but I participated, accepted the suggestions, did my homework, and I improved, building resilience. One of the sessions that most marked me was done with Lego bricks. I laughed at the idea, but I soon realized it was a very serious game. In a little over an hour, I felt the psychosomatic symptoms on edge; I developed almost instantaneous dermatitis, such was the strength of the emotions triggered. I think anxiety leads to panic attacks, which in turn leads to depression. It's like a very unpleasant person to us, and the best thing is to avoid them, but if that's not possible, we have to learn to recognize them, know what to expect from them, and overcome them. This was the treatment that worked best for me in the medium term (about 4 years). Every now and then I still feel close to the precipice, I pick up the tools I used back then and keep going. I have immense respect for people who suffer these inner pains, because I have felt them and I know that they are often worse than other physical pains. It's not easy to get out of these situations, but it is possible. I hope your therapy bears as much fruit as mine. God bless you!

Working with Marco was a very positive experience. Besides being an excellent professional, he is an honest, humane, and highly valuable person. I highly recommend him to anyone seeking quality support and guidance.

We worked together for a year, using various techniques, some I would even say out of the box, but they helped me a lot on my journey to understand myself better, to tidy up and organize the drawers in my head! It was a truly positive experience with results. I highly recommend Marco; besides being a very professional therapist with years of experience and knowledge that is not easy to find, he is also a friend who stays with you. Very grateful. Kisses and success!