As well as being a practising psychiatrist, she has worked as a fashion model, a television and radio presenter, and as a performer, mainly of didactic music for children.
She also worked as an announcer for Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) and as a radio show presenter.
She graduated in medicine at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, with a specialisation in psychiatry, in July 1994.
Vasconcelos completed an internship in psychiatry in February 2001 at the Hospital de São Francisco Xavier in Belém.
She has since produced records with her daughters that aim to assist young children to learn by bringing to life historic events and other subjects.