About Andreia
Andreia Sousa Fortes uses a person-centred approach to support people through difficult times. She keeps conversations practical and clear, helping people name what feels hard and decide on small steps forward. She communicates in English and Portuguese and works with adults in the United Kingdom.
Andreia holds NCPS as her listed credential and has four years of professional experience. Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief and recovery after trauma or abuse.
How Andreia works
She also supports people dealing with addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, low self-esteem and big life transitions. Andreia adapts sessions to each person's needs and the life they bring to therapy. Andreia draws on cognitive and behavioural tools to help change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to explore values and build practical coping skills. Attachment-based ideas guide her when relationship patterns and past losses shape current struggles. Sessions are described in everyday language and aim to be collaborative.
She listens, offers reflections and suggests exercises you can try between sessions. The emphasis is on gradual progress rather than sudden fixes. People can expect a calm, respectful space where their experience is taken seriously.
Andreia encourages straightforward planning so goals become real tasks. She aims to support personal growth while recognising how hard change can feel.
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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on what matters to you and on small steps that match your values. It helps with anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes by building practical habits and improving focus on what you care about.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches straightforward techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and to try different behaviours, which can ease symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help when past losses, abandonment or relationship difficulties keep affecting daily life and emotional responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist works collaboratively to decide which methods suit each person's goals, needs and preferences. Plans are adjusted as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you use visual cues and do longer therapeutic work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support and when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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