About Otavia
Otavia Pires de Camargo offers a warm, client-centred approach that blends talk therapy with practical tools. She draws on ten years of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety and life transitions in clear, ordinary language. Her work often focuses on how early relationships and attachment shape current struggles.
She helps people look at patterns around relationships, intimacy, communication and self-esteem. Practical strategies and mindfulness tools are used alongside reflective conversation.
How Otavia works
Otavia uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas when relationship patterns are central to the issue. This mix supports work on trauma, grief, addiction and compulsive behaviours.
Sessions may include breathwork, simple mindfulness practices and exercises to calm the nervous system. She also brings ideas from art therapy and a long personal meditation practice into the room when helpful. The aim is to restore a sense of balance between feelings, body and thinking.
Otavia works with practical concerns like sleep, eating, parenting pressures, career stress and compassion fatigue. She also addresses more complex areas such as abandonment, adoption and attachment issues. Her style is collaborative and gentle, focused on helping each person find clearer choices and more steady emotional footing.
Otavia lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Otavia works with
The areas below are the ones Otavia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It uses practical exercises to build willingness to face difficult feelings while taking steps towards chosen values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing thinking or behaviour patterns that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression and sleep issues. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to early relationship patterns and how they shape current emotional responses, useful for intimacy and communication challenges.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history and preferences and will propose methods that make sense together. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made over time to find what fits best.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well when visual contact helps the process. Phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written exchanges or need therapy that fits around work and travel. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity and access support from different locations.
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