Flavia Melo
Body-aware therapy for anxiety and life change
About Flavia
Flavia Melo offers a body-aware approach to therapy that links thoughts, feelings and physical sensations. She combines talk-based work with attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. Flavia speaks English and Portuguese and has seven years of experience as a BACP counsellor working in the United Kingdom.
Flavia commonly helps people facing anxiety, depression and stress. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem and body image, and challenges around parenting and career.
Background and approach
People come to her with trauma, abuse, panic, postpartum worries and sleep or eating difficulties. Her sessions blend Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with mindfulness and somatic techniques. She also draws on Internal Family Systems ideas to help people understand different inner parts and patterns.
In practice this means noticing bodily sensations, tracking thoughts and trying small experiments to change unhelpful habits. Initial sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on setting clear, manageable goals. Flavia uses music and creative tools when helpful, alongside breathing and movement exercises to reduce tension.
She aims for practical steps that fit everyday life. Over the course of therapy she helps people build awareness of their emotional patterns and develop new ways of coping. The work is collaborative and paced to each person.
Flavia supports clients who want steady change through concrete skills and bodily awareness.
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Flavia uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, often through small behavioural experiments and thought records. Mindfulness Therapy is used to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and increase calm. Somatic Therapy focuses on bodily sensations and gentle movement or breathing to release tension and reconnect with emotions.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. Flavia collaborates with each person to set goals and then suggests approaches to try. She adapts techniques over time based on how the client responds and what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or written reflection. These options help people maintain continuity of care while working around busy schedules and practical constraints.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
