Otavia Pires de Camargo, BACP
Otavia Pires de Camargo is a counsellor who draws on trauma-focused work and mind-body practices to help people manage stress and anxiety.
About Otavia
Otavia Pires de Camargo is a counsellor who draws on trauma-focused work and mind-body practices to help people manage stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, collaborative approach and uses practical tools to support emotional regulation. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and she works with people online and internationally.
With ten years of experience, Otavia combines a range of approaches to suit individual needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ideas to help people notice what matters, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
Background and approach
Attachment-based thinking shapes how she helps people understand relationship patterns and past wounds. Her background began with Art Therapy training and evolved into a broader clinical practice. This includes mindfulness, compassion-focused work, breathwork, and attention to early childhood development.
Her decade-long meditation practice informs how she brings presence and steadiness to sessions. Otavia supports people facing many concerns including depression, grief, addictions, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career difficulties, eating and sleeping problems, and coping with life changes. She also works with more specific themes like abandonment, attachment issues, body image and caregiver stress.
Her style is warm and exploratory. She helps people notice patterns, try new ways of responding, and build skills for everyday life. Practical steps, short exercises and reflective conversation are used so change can carry into daily routines.
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 403871 | November 2026 |
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Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Otavia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Ways of working Otavia names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor lists and does not check training records.
How these approaches translate to online counselling
Trauma-focused work helps people process and understand the impact of past hurt on current life. Online sessions allow paced exploration of difficult memories, grounding exercises and steady regulation techniques to be practised between meetings.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them. In remote sessions this often means identifying practical actions, experimenting with behavioural changes and using brief homework to build momentum.
Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape patterns now. Through conversation and gentle reflection the counsellor helps people notice repeated interaction styles and try different responses in real life.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, and then tailor methods as work progresses. People often combine techniques from different approaches to suit their situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility. Video calls support face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can fit short check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines while still using evidence-informed methods.
Frequently asked
What problems does she commonly help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, career change and coping with life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm, collaborative and practical. Sessions blend reflection, short exercises, mindfulness and breathwork to help people develop new ways of responding.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience working in mental health and counselling settings and has a background beginning with Art Therapy training.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and she is able to work with clients internationally.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and the therapist's arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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