
LAÇOS
School of family therapy
PSYCHOLOGIST, FAMILY AND COUPLE THERAPIST.
CHRISTINA
SUTTER
I was born in Petrópolis and completed my degree in psychology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in 1982. Once graduated, I worked at Fundação Educacional do Jari, in Monte Dourado, Pará, where I implemented a school psychology service in schools in the region.

From there I moved to Fortaleza where I discovered, in 1986, the training course in family therapy offered by the Center for Family Studies/UFC. My experience with schools taught me that struggling students often had struggling families. And that was my motivation to take the course and gradually leave the educational area to enter the clinic.
In 1990, already a professor at UNIFOR, where I taught for 28 years, I organized a specialization course in a systemic approach to the family, offered to professionals from different areas, with a pioneering format in Brazil at the time. Courses similar to this were later organized, with my consultancy, in the collective health course at UFRN and at UNI-RN in Natal.
In 1994, I implemented the project to assist low-income families and couples, at the UNIFOR Applied Psychology Service. From this experience we organized a book on Family and Social Vulnerability (Sutter, Bucher-Maluschke, Pedrosa, 2015).
Between 2008 and 2009 I worked as a volunteer with the organization Doctors Without Borders, implementing a mental health program in a maternity hospital in Port-au-Prince, when I had the opportunity to introduce the systemic perspective both in working with the hospital team as well as with patients and their families.
In 2012, after meeting a student, Natasha, we set up a training course in family therapy. In 2016, we founded the Cearense Family Therapy Association, ACTF, with students from the first class, assuming the presidency in the first biennium.
I am also involved with environmental and sustainability issues, as the systemic view of life forces me to think in terms of ecology and preservation.