PhD in Social Work from ISCTE and a degree in Social Work from Instituto Superior de Serviço Social de Lisboa, 

Specialization in Family Mediation and Conflict Management 

 Postgraduate in Health Governance from ENSP

Specialized training in Supporting Behavioural Change in the Self-Management of Chronic Illness by the Egas Moniz School of Health & Science.

She is a hospital social worker at ULSS José, 

Visiting Assistant Professor at ISCTE.

 Associate Researcher at CIES,

 integrated researcher at CLISSIS.

Family Mediator in the Public Mediation Systems of the Directorate-General for Justice Policy (DGPJ).

Coordinating Professor of the Postgraduate Course in Social Work in Health at IPPS-ISCTE.

Member of the Supervisory Board of the Order of Social Workers 

Member of the Governing Bodies of the Portuguese Association for Integrated Care (PAFIC)

She is a member of the national team as a Social Worker at ULSSJOSE - Join Action transfer of best praCtices InpRimary CarE (CIRCE-JA), in the development of an individual care plan for the chronically ill, based on the good practices of Andalusia (Spain) coordinated by ACSS as the national representative in a European project. 2023 to 2025.

Several publications in national and international journals in the fields of care integration, operational instruments of the profession and Social Work