About Andreia
Dr. Andreia Santo helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely so parents and individuals can talk through what matters most.
Dr. Santo is HCPC registered and brings 16 years of clinical experience to sessions. She trained in Portugal and completed further postgraduate study in family and systemic theory in the UK.
Early in her career she worked in early intervention services supporting children and carers, and later spent many years in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services with the NHS.
Background and approach
That background shaped a practical, down-to-earth approach to problems that affect daily life. In sessions she mixes clear, structured tools with open listening. Techniques drawn from cognitive behavioural therapy help people notice and change unhelpful patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people to live by their values even when feelings are difficult. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how past relationships affect current reactions. Counselling conversations focus on small, doable steps.
The aim is to improve sleep, reduce anxiety, manage cravings, or find new ways to cope with grief and relationship strain. Dr. Santo speaks English and Portuguese and works remotely with people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging are all available depending on individual needs and preferences. Getting started is a short online process that includes a matching questionnaire.
Approaches that suit online work and everyday life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps people spot thinking patterns that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change behaviours and sleep routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences affect current reactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that suit the person and adapt them as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls give face-to-face conversation when that is needed, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging allow short check-ins or ongoing written work. These options help people fit therapy around family life, work and travel while keeping a steady process of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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