From there, I returned to live in Fortaleza, where in 1986 I discovered the family therapy training course offered by the Center for Family Studies/UFC. My experience with schools taught me that students with problems usually had families going through difficulties. And that was my motivation to take the course and gradually leave the educational field to enter the clinical field.

In 1990, already a professor at UNIFOR, where I taught for 28 years, I organized a specialization course in the systemic approach to the family, offered to professionals from various areas, at the time a course with a pioneering format in Brazil. Similar courses were later organized with my consultancy in the public health course at UFRN and at UNI-RN in Natal.

In 1994, we created a project to assist families and couples at the UNIFOR SPA. 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, where I had the opportunity to introduce the systemic perspective both in the work with the hospital team and with patients and their families.

In 2012, after a happy encounter with a student, Natasha, we set up a family therapy training course. In 2016, with students from the first class, we founded the Associação Cearense de Terapia Familiar (ACTF) (Cearense Family Therapy Association). In addition to my passion for clinical work with families, I enjoy experiencing other cultures and taking photographs.

I also have an environmentalist streak because the systemic vision forces me to think in terms of preservation and sustainability. Hence my interest in spreading this perspective in the human and environmental domain.