About Andreia
Andreia Sousa Fortes is a counsellor who focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety. She works with people dealing with grief, trauma and depression. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and she brings four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
She aims to create a respectful and compassionate space. Conversations are shaped to each person rather than following a fixed script. Andreia helps clients set small, manageable goals and tries to keep things straightforward and useful.
Background and approach
Her work draws on approaches that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, build more helpful habits and repair troubled attachment patterns. That means clients can expect tools for managing strong emotions, skills for staying present, and ways to rebuild trust in relationships with others and themselves. Andreia also supports people facing addiction, eating and sleeping issues, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
She pays attention to background issues such as abandonment, communication problems and co-morbidity so conversations can address root causes as well as immediate symptoms. Therapy with her is collaborative. She tailors the plan to each person's goals and pace.
Beginning steps usually include a short assessment and an agreed plan of what to work on next.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It encourages choosing actions that match personal values, which can be useful for anxiety and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. It offers practical exercises for changing day-to-day habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, so therapy stays relevant to the client’s needs.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth for brief check-ins, and chat or messaging can fit into busy schedules or provide ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, family or study commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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