Otavia Pires de Camargo
Compassionate, practical therapy for lasting change
About Otavia
Otavia Pires de Camargo offers a warm, client-centred approach rooted in practical, experience-based methods. She brings ten years of clinical experience and works in English and Portuguese. Otavia draws on a mix of psychological approaches to help people regain balance during stressful times.
She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with elements from attachment theory and cognitive work. Sessions focus on noticing unhelpful patterns, exploring values, and building small, useful skills for daily life.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness and breathwork to help manage intense feelings and calm the nervous system. Otavia’s background includes early training in art therapy and a long personal practice of meditation. This blend gives her a rounded way of working that considers both feelings and practical behaviour.
She pays attention to how early relationships shape present difficulties and uses that understanding to guide conversations. In the room she aims to be calm and present, helping people talk through painful memories, relationship struggles, stress at work, parenting strain, grief, and changes in life direction. She supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, fatigue and difficulties with intimacy and self-esteem.
Practical steps, coaching elements and compassionate reflection are woven into sessions. Sessions can include short exercises, reflective discussion, and goal-focused tasks to practise between meetings. Otavia encourages collaboration on goals so therapy fits everyday life.
She sees online and international clients from the United Kingdom and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Otavia works with
How Otavia works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions in that direction. It helps when worry, avoidance or painful thoughts are getting in the way of living a life you value. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns. It is useful for people who notice repeated trust or intimacy problems and want to change how they relate to others.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that fit the person’s goals and day-to-day reality. That means mixing techniques, pacing the work, and checking in about what feels helpful as therapy progresses.
Online sessions can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is good for deeper conversational work and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can fit brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people with busy schedules, international time zones, or mobility constraints.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
