Otavia Pires de Camargo, BACP

Otavia Pires de Camargo offers a client-centred approach that blends practical therapy with mindful presence. She uses familiar, down-to-earth language and simple tools to help people handle stress, anxiety and major life shifts, including midlife crisis. Sessions aim to build self-awareness and steadiness rather than quick fixes.

Otavia trained initially in art therapy and has practised in mental health for 10 years. That early training informs a hands-on, exploratory style that often includes breathwork and mindfulness. She also draws on attachment ideas to help people understand patterns formed in early relationships.

Her sessions commonly use techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to reshape unhelpful thinking and increase meaningful action. Emotionally-Focused Therapy principles guide work on closeness and emotional expression when relationships are a concern. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

Practical steps are mixed with reflective inquiry. Clients may bring specific problems such as sleep or eating troubles, career strain, parenting challenges, or grief. Otavia also addresses longer standing issues like trauma, addictions, ADHD and body image in ways that look at feelings, behaviours and daily routines.

She offers a calm, attentive presence informed by a decade of practice and a long personal meditation habit. Her aim is to help people respond rather than react, to find clearer direction, and to restore a sense of balance and agency in everyday life.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Otavia combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed work with a client-centred stance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections and emotional responses, which is useful for intimacy and communication concerns. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a non-judgemental, empathetic relationship where the client’s pace and priorities guide the work.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. She will work together with each person to choose which methods feel most helpful based on goals and preferences. That collaborative decision-making means therapy can shift if one way of working isn’t fitting.

If you are considering online sessions, check the session formats before booking to confirm what she currently offers. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a break, or making it simpler to join from a different time zone. Many people find that reflective practices, breathwork and CBT-style tasks transfer well to remote sessions when organised with clear goals and simple home-based exercises.