About Denisse

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Denisse Revés is a Clinical and Counselling licensed Psychologist since 2010. For the past five years, she has been the Technical Director of the country’s first Clinical, Counselling Psychology and Hypnotherapy dedicated clinic, in the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique; she has assisted children, teenagers and adults with cognitive-behavioral therapy, Eriksonian hypnotherapy, family and couple therapy. Two years ago Denisse took the Practitioner module in NeuroLinguistic Programming with InPNL. Denisse has diagnosed and applied therapy to children with ADHD, DMDD, ODD and learning disabilities. Her work with teenagers consisted mostly in self-regulatory therapy, anxiety, depression, some self-injury and suicide attempts. Denisse has recently dedicated herself to therapeutic work with autistic children and teenagers. Denisse has worked for many years at the Coroner’s Office in Maputo –assisting victims of domestic and gender-based violence on a daily basis. Leading the team of psychologists, Denisse’s role consisted of forensic psychological assessments of sexual abused children and teenagers, rape victims and assessment of other crime victims such as human trafficking, neglect, maltreatment and work or sexual exploitation victims - Denisse is the first Mozambican woman with formal training in Criminal and Forensic Psychology. Besides her experience as a cognitive-behavioral therapist, Denisse has training in Ericksonian hypnosis, family constellations, psychodrama and neurolinguistic programming as Practitioner. Denisse has held many group sessions for parents of autistic children and teenagers. Denisse was the country Psychologist for Peace Corps volunteers from 2018 until 2020 - the pandemic forced the halt of volunteers work in Mozambique. Denisse did all the short term psychological interventions to the volunteers, managed group sessions in different psychological matters, provided for psychological first aid and assessment upon critical events and made referrals where in acute cases, the volunteers had to medically evacuated. Denisse lectured Forensic Psychology in local universities and is an active member of the Mozambican Psychology Association. Her research interests include: children’s preparation for court testimony, risk assessment and sexual offenders’ treatment and has developed in collaboration with a Portuguese colleague, an instrument to aid children in the preparation of court testimony.