Abigail De Almeida, BACP, NCPS

Abigail De Almeida is an integrative counsellor who supports people through difficult life moments. She has three years of clinical experience and works with common concerns like stress, anxiety, low mood and grief. Abigail aims to help people make sense of what feels stuck and find the motivation to move forward.

Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. She listens to someone’s story, identifies patterns that keep them feeling stuck, and then tries different ways to shift those patterns. That might mean exploring thoughts and behaviours, looking at early relationships, or working with values and acceptance skills.

Abigail uses a mix of methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, client-centred techniques, psychodynamic ideas and hypnotherapy. She tailors each session to the person’s needs rather than following a rigid formula. This helps people tackle issues such as relationship concerns, attachment wounds, abandonment, jealousy and family of origin problems.

Conversations also address practical stresses like career pressure, caregiver strain and compassion fatigue. Abigail supports people coping with life changes and with questions about purpose and meaning. She speaks English and Portuguese and practices in the United Kingdom.

To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and introduces practical exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression and stress. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s own goals and experience at the centre, with the counsellor offering empathic listening and support to help someone make decisions and find their own direction.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Abigail collaborates with each person to decide which methods best fit their needs, goals and preferences. That decision can change over time as issues evolve and different tools are tried together.

The original profile does not list specific online formats, so please confirm current session options before booking. Many people find online sessions easier to fit into a busy life, as they remove travel time and can be scheduled around work or caring duties. Others appreciate shorter check-ins by phone or sessions without video when bandwidth or quieter surroundings are a consideration. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, worksheets and therapeutic tasks to remote sessions so progress continues even when meetings are not face to face.