Zaida Fontes
Healing through steady, practical support
About Zaida
Zaida Fontes greets people with warmth and directness. She works with adults who are struggling with addictions, grief, low self-esteem, depression and anger. She also supports people facing major life changes and family-related problems.
Zaida speaks English and Portuguese and practises from the United Kingdom. Zaida uses a person-centred attitude that treats each person as the expert in their own life. She listens first and helps people name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Her way of working aims to build trusting connection and clearer choices rather than offering quick fixes. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions. That can help people understand recurring patterns in relationships and parenting.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy tools are used when someone needs practical skills for emotional regulation and managing overwhelming feelings. Zaida has nine years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential. She frames progress as a step-by-step process, helping people try things between sessions and review what helps.
The focus is on practical change you can feel in day-to-day life. People who choose Zaida can expect uncomplicated language and steady support. She aims to create a calm space to talk through fears, losses and confusing decisions.
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier moods and stronger connections with others.
What Zaida works with
How Zaida works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Zaida combines attachment-based work and dialectical behaviour therapy tools to support people in different ways. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape present patterns and helps people change repeating cycles in relationships and parenting. Dialectical behaviour therapy, or DBT, teaches clear skills for managing strong emotions, staying present and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try together. Plans are reviewed and adapted as needs change so clients stay involved in choosing what helps most. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you see facial cues and build rapport, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days, and live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing written support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress and useful skills.| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
