About Andreia
Dr. Andreia Santo helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, addiction or major life changes. She is comfortable with a wide range of concerns including mood difficulties, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, ADHD, and trauma-related problems.
Dr. Santo communicates in English and Portuguese and works with clients across different countries from the United Kingdom. She trained in Portugal and holds HCPC registration.
Her early placements included work in early intervention services and the UK National Health Service, giving her long experience with assessment and practical support.
How Andreia works
Since moving to the UK she completed further post-graduate study in family and systemic approaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. In sessions she blends several approaches to suit each person.
She uses elements from cognitive behavioural methods to help change thinking patterns, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build willingness to act, and attachment-informed work to address relational wounds. The work is conversational and practical, with attention to how patterns show up in daily life. Dr.
Santo has 16 years of professional experience and has worked with people facing complex co-morbidity such as chronic pain, substance issues, mood disorders and dissociation. She also has focused interest in abandonment, attachment difficulties and neurodiversity including autism and Asperger syndrome. Her practice is largely remote.
Sessions are provided by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Work with her is framed as collaborative - clients and therapist choose the methods and pace together.
Andreia lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Andreia works with
The areas below are the ones Andreia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | HCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and make small moves towards what matters to them. It often suits people coping with anxiety, depression or life transitions who want to refocus on values and meaningful action.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical steps to change thinking and behaviour. It can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep and patterns that keep problems going by teaching clear strategies and homework tasks.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and emotional responses. It can help people who struggle with trust, abandonment fears or repeating painful relationship patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be decided together. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and adapt methods over time so the work stays useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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