About Arleia
Arleia Lopes is a psychotherapeutic counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of experience. She holds BACP accreditation, and she works with adults and young people on a wide range of concerns. Her practice grew from personal work and volunteering with mental health organisations and primary schools.
She brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions and aims to meet people where they are. Her work focuses on practical problems such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and communication difficulties, parenting challenges, and pregnancy or postpartum issues. Additional areas include mood disorders, ADHD, eating concerns and experiences of prejudice and discrimination. Arleia uses a blend of approaches to suit each person.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at early relationship patterns, client-centred listening to follow the person’s pace, and cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviours. She adapts the style depending on the issue and the person’s goals. Sessions are conversational and interactive.
She aims to create space for honest reflection while working toward manageable changes. People can expect direct, plain language and a focus on concrete steps alongside emotional understanding. Her background in life coaching and clinical supervision informs a practical focus on goals and next steps.
The intention is to help people build tools they can use outside sessions and to support clearer thinking about next moves in life.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Arleia uses client-centred work to follow each person’s pace and priorities. This approach means the counsellor listens closely and reflects what matters to you, often helping people feel heard and clearer about their next steps.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect current difficulties. This can help when problems show up in close relationships or when someone struggles with trust and emotional closeness.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments. These techniques suit concerns such as anxiety, low mood and phobias where changing thought patterns and behaviours can ease day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, needs and preferences and will collaborate to find a good fit. Plans can be adapted as therapy progresses so the method matches what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility for different lives and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine and to keep continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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