Reflections from Yasmin Conrado Veiga Bosquetti, clinical psychologist at Satori Health Centre, Leuven
Yasmin Conrado Veiga Bosquetti joined our Leuven team this autumn as a clinical psychologist. She works in English, Dutch and Portuguese, in person at Vaartstraat 68 and online.
Yasmin shared her thoughts about therapy with us – not as a definition, but as a series of reflections on what therapy may be about. We share them here as she wrote them.
On what therapy may be about
On experiencing existence, the raw version of it.
On relating with the unknown. And the things one can't control.
On human vulnerability.
On intending to speak truthfully.
On bearing and owning one's complexity. With love.
On the wisdom and guiding power in our undiscovered inner world.
On the relationship to the body.
On the relationship to oneself. With the emptiness, the suffering, the silences, and the spaces of still-becoming.
On opening the door to what has insisted on meeting us. Welcoming it in. Listening. Caring for it. On then breathing. And living, again.
On enduring one's inner ripening processes.
On working to become oneself, whole. On attempting to walk one's own path. And discovering the irreplaceable, unique value of it.
On unfurling, not despite, but through the seasons of life.
On being a living being.
On being enough.
On the 'more' one is than the one one feels.
On breathing again. And differently.
I believe these reflections touch on some lines of the human condition and of being in this world, and some of the paths for therapeutic change and growth.
But there is just so much more and else that could be said about therapy. What therapy is about, may this answer come from you. In my practice, that's what will define and matter in the work of therapy, anyway: the meaning you, and only you, experience in it.
On why I became a therapist
Perhaps it was for the irreplaceable privilege it is, to me, of accompanying another human being in this work. Of witnessing, with ineffable empathy, respect, and awe, the extraordinary raw existence of another, and being entrusted, however briefly, with the possibility of meaning something in the unique life process of its healing and becoming.
Words Yasmin returns to
“Alguns anos são doídos e difíceis, mas a gente é mais.”
“Some years are painful and difficult, but we’re more than that.”
– Ariano Suassuna
“Não queremos perder, nem deveríamos perder: saúde, pessoas, posição, dignidade ou confiança. Mas perder e ganhar faz parte do nosso processo de humanização.”
“We don’t want to lose, nor should we lose: health, people, positions, dignity, or confidence. But losing and winning are part of our process of becoming human.”
– Lya Luft
“Só há uma coisa na vida que precisamos aprender, e ninguém ensina isso nas escolas. A capacidade de suportar.”
“There’s only one thing in life we need to learn, and no one teaches it in school: the ability to endure.”
– Clarice Lispector
“Não tenhas pressa, porque onde tens de ir é a ti mesmo.”
“Don’t hurry, because the place you need to go is within yourself.”
– José Saramago
“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.”
– Marion Woodman
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
– John Steinbeck
“…perfectionist standards do not allow for failure. They do not even allow for life, and certainly not death.”
– Marion Woodman
“…Meeting people where they’re at and treating them like human beings and not trying to change them, actually opens up the possibility of transformation for them.”
– Dr Gabor Maté
“É preciso amar o inútil. Criar pombos sem pensar em comê-los, plantar roseiras sem pensar em colher rosas, escrever sem pensar em publicar, fazer coisas assim sem esperar nada em troca.”
“It is necessary to love that which is useless. Raise pigeons without thinking about eating them, plant rosebushes without thinking about picking roses, write without thinking about publishing—do things like that without expecting anything in return.”
– Lygia Fagundes Telles
About Yasmin
Yasmin is a recognised clinical psychologist in Belgium. Her approach is client-centred and existential, drawing on psychodynamic work. She works with adults and young adults around stress, anxiety, perfectionism, loneliness, shame, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, indecision, low mood, loss, migration and identity, among other experiences.
Sessions are €70 for 50 minutes, in English, Dutch or Portuguese, in person at Vaartstraat 68 in Leuven or online.
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Last updated 1 November 2026
