Otavia Pires de Camargo, BACP
10 years in practice
Otavia Pires de Camargo offers a calm, client-centred approach that aims to strengthen emotional connection and self-awareness.
License and registration
- BACP
- 403871 · expires November 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Otavia
Otavia Pires de Camargo offers a calm, client-centred approach that aims to strengthen emotional connection and self-awareness. She blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy with practical tools to help people cope with stress, anxiety and challenges tied to relationships and identity. Her style is warm and collaborative, with short-term strategies and longer-term exploration as needed.
She draws on ten years of experience in mental health and a background that began with art therapy training.
Background and approach
That early work led her to combine creative awareness with talk-based methods. Sessions often include breathing and simple mindfulness exercises to help regulate strong emotions. Her work pulls from attachment ideas and acceptance-based methods to help people understand patterns that show up in relationships and self-image.
Cognitive approaches are used where thinking habits keep someone stuck. The aim is to create practical shifts rather than only talking about problems. Otavia also pays attention to life factors such as grief, career stress, exhaustion and caregiving strain.
She supports people facing addictive behaviours, sleep or eating concerns, and the fallout from trauma or abandonment issues. She uses a compassionate stance to help build emotional strength. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and can take place online or by phone.
She works with individual adults who want help with coping, clearer communication, and rebuilding a sense of balance and purpose. People are invited to start with a short questionnaire and then arrange sessions that suit their schedule. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
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
Approaches Otavia names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- 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 therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Emotion-Focused and Acceptance-Based Work Translate Online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to help people recognise and name core emotions and then use that awareness to change unhelpful patterns in relationships and self-view. It can be useful for worries about attachment, intimacy and repeated emotional reactions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches practical ways to accept difficult thoughts and move toward valued actions, which helps with anxiety, depression and life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide which blend of Emotionally-Focused, acceptance-based or attachment-informed techniques will best support the person’s aims.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier on days when being on camera is tiring. Live chat or messaging suits short check-ins, writing through thoughts, or keeping therapy going between calls.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and coping with life changes, plus relationship and intimacy-related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and client-centred, combining emotionally-focused work with practical exercises like mindfulness and breathwork.
What background and experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience and began her journey with art therapy training, which informs a creative and embodied approach.
Where does she practise and what credential does she hold?
She is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration, which is listed as her credential.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese.
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 sessions priced?
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