About Otavia
Otavia Pires de Camargo uses a client-centred, relational approach to help people find steadiness in stressful times. She blends practical tools with reflective work so clients can notice thought patterns, manage strong feelings, and make changes that fit their lives. Otavia speaks English and Portuguese and works with people from the United Kingdom and internationally.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to bring simple, actionable steps into sessions.
Background and approach
Those methods are mixed with attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. This combination can help with anxiety, stress, phobias, addiction concerns, low self-esteem and difficulties after trauma or loss. Sessions are conversational and paced to each person.
Otavia often uses mindfulness, breathwork and compassion-focused practices to calm the nervous system and build present-moment awareness. She also integrates art-informed ideas from her early training when creative ways of expressing feelings are helpful. Her practice pays attention to how work, parenting and cultural background affect wellbeing.
She supports people facing career shifts, relationship strain, sleeping or eating problems, and other life changes. The focus is on small, manageable shifts that add up over time. With ten years of experience and accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Otavia offers an approach that balances practical coping strategies with deeper inquiry.
Her style is warm, curious and non-judgemental, aimed at helping clients reconnect with what matters to them.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and encourages action based on personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, phobias and feeling overwhelmed. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and communication, and can support people dealing with intimacy issues or long-standing relational wounds.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that suit the person, adjusting pace and tools as understanding grows.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances and are helpful for deeper reflective work. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day and need less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel, while keeping the focus on practical coping and emotional insight.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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