Ivanilda B. Costa is a Phd student in Clinical Psychology, Cognitive-Behavioural Orientation at Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Porto. Ivanilda is a licensed clinical psychologist. Currently, she provides counselling sessions at a private company and is a teaching assistant professor int the BSc degree in Psychogly at Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa. She is interested in research in the psychology field that focuses on how ethnic-racial background can influence psychological results and finding evidence-based interventions that cater to these differences.