About us

We make it easy for you to receive responsible, specialized psychological help.

 

 

There are times when life turns difficult... You may start feeling down, unmotivated and tired. You may get much more impatient, struggle to make decisions or start having heated arguments with your partner. You may feel yourself getting behind at work, college, or even in life.

 

Sometimes you overcome these situations with the help of your family and friends. Other times, it is different. You get so overwhelmed that it starts to affect you on a daily basis. You start to feel that you are not like you used to be anymore and other people notice the same.

 

Others want to help you but you have difficulties opening yourself to your friends or family because they would never understand what you are going through. The thought of counseling or therapy crosses your mind a few times but you worry you don't have the time for weekly office-trips, you fear people will start looking at you differently, you are on a low-budget or you live far away from your nearest psychologist office...

 

...This is why we developed ScaleUpCare!

 

We are a group of Portuguese, Oporto-based psychologists and researchers who have been working on the field of psychotherapy for a long time. After being part of an international research project about psychotherapy and new technologies, we discovered that counseling and therapy delivered through video-call is a viable and effective way of providing care (Backhaus et al., 2012).

 

As so, our proposal is simple: you schedule an appointment with a psychologist directly from our website, and then you benefit from a private, secure face-to-face consultation by video-call where we will assess how we can help you get help.