Florbela Santos
Gentle client-centred support with practical tools
About Florbela
Florbela Santos uses a client-centred approach to help people feel heard and understood. She combines this with mindfulness and somatic ideas to ground conversations in the body and present moment. Florbela works with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression and trauma.
She also supports people dealing with relationship and family concerns, addictions, grief and problems with sleep or eating. Florbela has 13 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
She adapts sessions to each person, pacing conversations to match how someone prefers to think and speak about things. Sessions focus on practical steps alongside deeper reflection. Her practice pays attention to how past experiences shape present feelings.
She uses psychodynamic ideas to help people notice repeating patterns and attachment-related difficulties. She also draws on existential thinking to help people find meaning when life feels overwhelming or uncertain. Mindfulness and somatic work are woven into conversations to help with anxiety, panic, body image and dissociation.
These approaches offer short practices someone can use between sessions to feel steadier. Florbela also addresses specific concerns such as fertility issues, compassion fatigue, money worries and self-harm with care and attention. People who prefer online options can connect in ways that suit their day-to-day life.
Florbela speaks English and works with international clients. To start, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then arranges sessions according to available times.
What Florbela works with
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online and in sessions
Florbela uses client-centred therapy as a foundation, which means sessions focus on what the person brings and move at their pace. This style suits people needing a non-judgemental space to talk through stress, anxiety or relationship worries.She also integrates mindfulness therapy, offering simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and eating routines. Mindfulness is helpful for anxiety, rumination and grounding when emotions feel overwhelming.
Somatic therapy is used to notice how emotions show up in the body and to develop brief body-based practices for dissociation, panic or trauma-related symptoms. These practices give practical strategies to use between sessions and during moments of high tension.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs. This collaborative process helps shape an ongoing plan.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging - make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
