{"id":923,"date":"2021-09-23T05:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitylsleep.com\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=923"},"modified":"2021-12-01T22:05:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T11:05:37","slug":"dr-margarida-rafael","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/vitylsleep.com\/au\/staff\/dr-margarida-rafael\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Margarida Rafael"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Experienced in both clinical and organisational settings<\/li><li>Passion for couples counselling<\/li><li>Doctor of Psychology: Adler University, Illinois USA<\/li><li>Speaks English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Margarida&#8217;s experience as a clinical and research psychologist spans across a number of settings, across the USA and Portugal. She has experience in both Organisational and Clinical psychology, spanning both private and public practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a clinical setting, Dr Margarida has worked with patients from a variety of backgrounds including; at risk children and adolescents from a low socio economic status, patients with chronic pain (including spinal chord injuries), counselling for couples, and adults presenting with mental health challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><strong><em>Everyone has the right to mental wellness and the potential to be their best self.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As a research psychologist, Dr. Margarida works alongside a team of medical doctors, naturopaths, clinical psychologists, and nurse practitioners to develop empirically validated content for the Sleep (CBT-I) Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Work History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Head of Psychological Sciences: Workzinga<\/li><li>Self-employed Psychological Researcher and Consultant, Psychologist<\/li><li>Helping Minds: Psychologist<\/li><li>Beach Psychology: Psychologist<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-c62c7387-b9ce-4b6c-a5f3-a6eac15cece6\"><li><strong>Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Portuga<\/strong>l [B. Psychology] &#8211; 2009<\/li><li><strong>Carroll University, Wisconsin USA<\/strong> [Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology] &#8211; 2012<\/li><li><strong>Adler University, Illinois, USA<\/strong> [Doctor of Psychology, Clinical Psychology] &#8211; 2017<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":924,"template":"","team":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitylsleep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitylsleep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitylsleep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitylsleep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitylsleep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitylsleep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}