Counsellor profile
Otavia Pires de Camargo, BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - relationships and codependency
Continue with OtaviaWhere Otavia stands
- Credentials
- BACP
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom / 403871
- Experience
- 10 years
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Codependency awareness
- Attachment work
- Mindfulness tools
About Otavia
Otavia Pires de Camargo is a BACP counsellor working in the United Kingdom with ten years' experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns and codependency-related patterns among other issues. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and she accepts international clients.
She began her path with art therapy training and has built on that foundation across a decade in practice. Her work draws on attachment ideas and emotion-focused approaches to help people understand how early relationships shape current reactions. She describes a client-centred way of working that keeps the person’s voice central in the room.
Practical techniques are blended with reflective conversation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools can help someone notice unhelpful patterns and test small changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to build values-based action when feelings are overwhelming.
Otavia uses mindfulness and breathwork learned through a long personal meditation practice to help calm the nervous system. She also brings elements from Jungian thinking and emotionally-focused work to attend to deeper feelings and relationship patterns. Sessions tend to balance present-moment skills with attention to past experiences that still affect daily life.
People who struggle with people-pleasing, difficulty saying no, or staying emotionally available for others while losing their own needs may find this approach useful. Her focus includes parenting stresses, career pressure, trauma and intimacy issues, and challenges such as body image, chronic illness, or attachment wounds.
To begin, clients follow a short online matching questionnaire and book an initial session. The subscription-based arrangement can be cancelled at any time, and fees vary with location.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then take small actions that match their values. It can help when intense emotions get in the way of living the life someone wants.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It aims to make those patterns easier to recognise so people can try different ways of relating and set clearer boundaries in their lives.
Otavia treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss options during early sessions and adapt methods based on what a client says they want to change and how they respond to different techniques. The plan can shift as work progresses.
Practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions more easily around work or family commitments and reducing travel time. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions allow for shorter check-ins, easier access across time zones, and the chance to use mindfulness or breathing exercises with guidance during a regular day.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Portuguese
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, addictions, codependency-related patterns and many related issues listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centred and collaborative, combining conversation with practical techniques from CBT, ACT and emotionally-focused work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience since beginning with art therapy training and developing a practice informed by attachment and trauma work.
What credential and location information is on file?
She is listed with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography.
How are fees handled?
Fees vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.