I’m Pedro,
a remote mentor based in Portugal.
I help people break through because when I needed it most, no one could show me the way and I had to find it myself. I know what it's like to be lost and unable to find anyone who truly knows how to help. Read my full story below, or skip to see if this work is for you.
At 21, I couldn't name what was wrong with me. I was just hurting—a deep, overwhelming pain I couldn't explain or even fully feel.
I was so numb, so dissociated, so frozen that if I'd been able to perceive the true extent of what I was carrying, I probably wouldn't have been able to cope. My nervous system was protecting me by keeping me shut down, even as the emotional pain leaked through in ways that made no sense to me, in ways I couldn't control.
I had no language for any of this. I didn't know what trauma was, what it meant to be frozen, in shock, or why my own body felt like a prison. I just knew something was deeply, fundamentally wrong.
So I left everything behind to find out what.
The journey out
After finishing my architecture degree, I left Portugal and traveled the world looking for something—anything—that would show me I could exist outside the confines of my suffering. That feeling good was actually possible.
I wasn't trying to understand what had happened to me. I just wanted proof that this wasn't who I was. That all this pain was an experience I was having, not my identity.
Through years of intensive meditation practice and retreats, I started to gain the first glimpses of awareness. Slowly, I began to thaw.
That's when the real work began.
Learning to feel
As I came out of the freeze, I had to learn an entirely new language—the language of emotions, of the body, of the nervous system. Through feeling, I finally started having words for the silent agony I’d felt all along.
I learned about somatic therapy, shadow work, and attachment theory. I learned that trauma lives in the body, not the mind. You can't think or understand your way out of it. I learned to ask "what happened to me?" instead of "what's wrong with me?". And most importantly, I learned that healing requires the willingness to feel, not just the desire to feel better.
Meditation showed me something crucial: I could feel good. And if I could feel good, even for moments, then how I felt wasn't who I was. It could change.
The emotions I'd been too frozen to access were still there, waiting. The patterns running my life were operating in the background of my nervous system, not in my conscious mind. I needed to learn how to feel what I'd been unable to feel, to access what I'd been cut off from, to transform what I couldn't think my way out of.
I realized I had locked myself in a cage to survive my childhood. To free myself, I had to face the dark, terrifying feelings, the powerlessness, and fragility I'd been avoiding my entire life. In that constant surrender to feeling, my nervous system started to remember a form of freedom it had long forgotten.
That process set me free.
What freedom feels like
I'll never forget the first time I felt truly alive in my body. Not numb. Not managing. Not coping. Alive.
It wasn't dramatic. I was camping by a lake, by myself, opening my eyes from morning meditation. I suddenly realized I wasn't bracing against the next wave of anxiety, shame, or fear. I didn't feel any need for anything to be different. I was just... happy to be there, happy to be me. Present. Connected to myself in a way I didn't remember ever experiencing—yet it felt like the most familiar, natural thing in the world.
That's when I understood: this is what I'd been searching for. Not the absence of pain, but the presence of aliveness. Not understanding my trauma, but freedom from its grip.
The patterns that had run my life for decades—the self-abandonment, the anxiety, the feeling of being fundamentally broken—they were still there in memory, but they no longer controlled me, even if just for that moment. My nervous system was remembering and re-learning it was safe to be here. Safe to feel. Safe to exist and be me.
Soon after, I knew I had to learn how to guide others to this same freedom.
From personal healing to guiding others
Once I experienced this kind of breakthrough, I couldn't unsee it. I spent years studying shadow work, somatic therapy, and embodiment practices—learning not just how to heal myself, but how to guide others through their own transformation.
Over the past 6 years, I've worked with 43 long-term clients and held 1,400+ one-on-one sessions. My clients are engineers, artists, directors, entrepreneurs, scientists—high-functioning people who are secretly struggling. People who've gotten stuck at the same place I did: understanding their problems intellectually but unable to actually transform them.
Here's what I learned:
Most people don't need more mindset shifts. They need someone who can help them access what talk therapy never reached, integrate what meditation revealed, and embody what plant medicine showed them was possible. Someone who understands that healing trauma requires feeling it and is not afraid to hold you in the places of deep painful feelings. Someone who's walked this path themselves and knows the way through.
Are you one of my people?
See if you recognize yourself here:
You're a pattern breaker. A cycle breaker. You're building a life that outgrew the social context you were born into—not because you're rebelling, but because the dominant culture fundamentally doesn't fit who you are.
You're sharp, intelligent, bold. You see through the bullshit. You think differently, and people are often triggered by your truth. You're learning to be kind without sacrificing your alignment. Compassionate without dimming your fire.
You're done with surface-level success that leaves you feeling dead inside. You want radical alignment—where your work excites you, brings abundance, and leaves the world better than you found it. You're learning to design your life around your own rhythms, not systems that were never built for you.
You're becoming a creator, not a consumer. You make things. Build things. You're here to do something—and you feel that purpose, even when you can't fully articulate it yet.
You hate suffering, but you're learning to welcome pain. Suffering is resisting what needs to be felt. Pain is the signal that something's out of alignment—and you're willing to feel it, meet it, and transform with it. You're opening to intensity because you know it's where growth lives.
You've done therapy, meditation, plant medicine—maybe for years. It was helpful but you're realizing you used it to create a new cage. You're no longer interested in having your thoughts and feelings policed, managed, or explained away. You want help trusting your experience, your fire, your awareness, your inner knowing—while being guided and supported in going deeper.
You're ready to go deeper than you've ever gone. To trust your inner compass absolutely. And you're willing to feel it all to get there.
Video of Pedro in his somatic therapy session room welcoming clients to remote sessions
Here's how I work
I don't see you as broken. I see you as someone carrying brilliant survival mechanisms that have outlived their purpose. We'll bring those patterns into the light, not to destroy them, but to understand why they exist and help them transform from the inside out.
This isn't talk therapy. This isn't positive thinking or willpower. It's about accessing your body's intelligence, feeling what you've been cut off from, and transforming at the root level—the same process that set me free.
I've been where you are: stuck in patterns I understood but couldn't break, living in my head instead of my body, knowing there was a freer version of me I couldn't access. I found the way out. And I'd be honored to walk it with you.