About Camila
Camila De Oliveira Mendes Leal offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or big life changes. She is named up front so readers know who they would meet. Her approach aims to help people feel more grounded and handle day-to-day pressures with clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Camila trained as a psychologist in Brazil and holds Level 4 membership with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). She brings ten years of clinical experience to each session and focuses on practical ways to manage intense feelings.
How Camila works
Sessions use straightforward language and concrete strategies rather than jargon. Her work draws on psychoanalytic ideas to look at recurring patterns and emotional roots. She also uses breathwork based on HeartMath techniques to help with anxiety and stress regulation through the body.
Complementary methods such as neuro-linguistic programming and hypnotherapy are available to reframe habits and access inner resources. Camila has particular experience supporting people through trauma, perinatal mental health concerns, and ongoing stress or anxiety. She can help with parenting-related strain, self‑esteem issues and coping with major life transitions.
Her style is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and conducted online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Camila works from Australia and does not take international clients.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled based on therapist availability.
What Camila works with
The areas below are the ones Camila selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Camila uses a small set of complementary approaches that translate well to online work. Psychoanalytic-informed work helps people notice recurring emotional patterns and understand where struggles come from; this involves reflective conversation and paying attention to feelings over time. Breathwork drawing on HeartMath techniques teaches simple breath and rhythm exercises that reduce anxiety and help people feel calmer in the body. Neuro-linguistic programming and hypnotherapy are offered as practical tools to reframe unhelpful thoughts and build new coping routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Camila will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adapt techniques as needed. The choice of methods is collaborative and can change as people learn what helps them most.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone call, live chat or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for more in-depth sessions and non‑verbal cues, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check‑ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact between sessions.
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