Otavia Pires de Camargo, BACP

Otavia Pires de Camargo creates a warm, client-centred space where people can make sense of stress, relationship strain and difficult emotions. She blends practical exercises with gentle inquiry to help people notice patterns and find clearer choices. Otavia uses her decade of experience and a long meditation practice to bring calm and focus to sessions.

Her background began in art therapy, which shaped a hands-on interest in emotional healing and creativity. Over ten years she expanded into psychological approaches that address thinking, feeling and attachment. This mix informs how she works with issues such as anxiety, depression, addiction and grief.

Otavia draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small, workable changes. She also uses Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused approaches to look at how early relationships shape present patterns. Sessions include mindfulness and breathwork to help regulate the nervous system when emotions feel overwhelming.

She also supports people facing parenting stresses, role changes, career uncertainty and compassion fatigue. Practical tools are balanced with reflective work so people can build resilience over time. Otavia speaks English and Portuguese and practises in the United Kingdom.

Her aim is to help people respond rather than react and to reconnect with what matters most. The work is collaborative - she listens, reflects and offers methods to try between sessions. This gives space for steady, meaningful change.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Otavia often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) uses mindfulness and values-based actions to help people live with difficult thoughts and feelings while still moving toward what matters. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they influence current emotional reactions and connection with others.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will explore a client’s needs, goals and preferences and adapt methods collaboratively. That might mean trying practical CBT-style experiments one week and a more reflective attachment focus the next, depending on what helps most.

The practical benefits of online therapy can include fitting sessions into a busy week, keeping appointments when travel is difficult, and choosing shorter check-ins when time is limited. Because the biography does not list session formats, confirm the specific options available before booking. Registered or accredited professionals can use remote sessions to offer continuity of care while helping people build everyday routines and coping skills.