About Otavia
Otavia Pires de Camargo works from a person-centred, mindful approach that aims to reduce anxiety and stress. She creates a calm space where people can notice what matters to them and learn practical ways to manage strong feelings. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese with a focus on everyday relief and clearer thinking.
Otavia brings ten years of experience in mental health to her work. Her background began with art therapy training and grew into a broader practice that mixes talking therapy with body-based tools.
Background and approach
She often uses breathing exercises and simple mindfulness practices to help regulate the nervous system during sessions. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens for early attachment patterns and how they show up in relationships and self-worth.
She blends approaches such as cognitive behavioural ideas and emotionally-focused techniques to address issues like depression, grief, and relationship strain. Practical problems are tackled directly. That can mean setting small, achievable coping steps for sleep, eating, or daily routine.
It can also mean working through painful experiences like trauma, abandonment, or chronic health worries, always at a pace the person chooses. People also seek support for career stress, parenting strain, addiction concerns, and identity or body-image issues. Otavia aims to help people build self-compassion and resilience, and to re-engage with values and purpose in life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to clarify what truly matters to them and to take small committed steps towards those values. It helps with anxiety, low mood and getting unstuck by focusing on actions rather than trying to eliminate difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood because it gives clear strategies to apply between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and daily life, and then suggest methods to try. That means sessions can mix ACT, CBT and person-centred listening so the plan fits the individual rather than forcing a single model.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and do guided breathing or body-based practices. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, short coaching-style support or when people want flexible, ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and different time zones while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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