Otavia Pires de Camargo

Otavia Pires de Camargo offers a warm, client-centred counselling approach that blends practical work with mindful awareness. She draws on ten years of experience and a background that began with Art Therapy training to create a calm space for people to talk through stress, anger, anxiety and relationship strains.

Her sessions focus on helping people notice how thoughts, feelings and bodies interact. She uses breathwork and mindfulness to help settle the nervous system and make emotional reactions easier to understand. That practical grounding is paired with reflective work on early attachment and how family history shapes current patterns.

Otavia works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, addiction issues and difficulties around intimacy and parenting. She also supports people navigating life changes, career decisions and compassion fatigue. Her style is collaborative rather than prescriptive, so goals and pace are set together.

Her training is reflected in an emphasis on acceptance, values-based action and strengthening emotional bonds. Techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy appear alongside attachment-based ideas to help people make concrete changes and repair important relationships.

Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and she practises in the United Kingdom. Otavia is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. To begin, clients follow the site’s Start Therapy steps to match and schedule sessions.

Approaches that translate to online therapy

Otavia commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and supports action guided by personal values to reduce suffering. Attachment-Based Therapy explores early relationship patterns and how they affect current bonds and emotional responses, which can help with anger and intimacy issues. Client-Centred Therapy offers a non-judgemental, empathic space where the person’s own goals guide the work and the therapist follows the client’s pace.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively to identify which methods match a person’s needs, goals and preferences, and adjusts the mix as therapy progresses. The aim is to help clients feel more able to respond rather than react, using practical exercises and reflective conversation.

For practical matters, confirm session formats before booking because the biography does not specify them here. Many people find online sessions useful because they can fit therapy into their day more easily, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Others appreciate that online work still lets them use mindfulness practices, breathing exercises and reflective discussions from a convenient place. Registered or accredited professionals can support the same therapeutic aims through remote work, and the therapist will help make sessions manageable alongside everyday life.