Azora Guimarães , NCPS

Azora Guimarães is a counsellor who helps people dealing with trauma, relationship strain and questions about identity. She works with people managing anxiety, grief, eating and body image concerns, and the fallout from abuse or difficult life events. Her approach is practical and supportive, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.

Azora draws on attachment-focused ideas to help people understand patterns in relationships and intimacy. She blends client-centred listening with psychodynamic thinking to uncover how past experiences shape current feelings. Mindfulness practices and solution-focused tools are used to build coping skills that fit everyday life.

Her background includes work supporting survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence, and she has volunteered with Women’s Aid as a counsellor and phone buddy. That experience informs the way she meets people who are navigating court processes, miscarriages, or the complex aftermath of assault and abuse.

Azora also brings experience from coaching, personal training and neuro-linguistic programming into practical work on body image and eating issues. She offers a 12-week reflective booklet used alongside sessions to help people reshape thoughts about food and self-image.

Sessions may include couples who want to rebuild intimacy and manage cultural differences, or individuals finding their way after separation or betrayal. Azora believes healing happens step by step and aims to stand alongside people while they make sense of painful experiences and develop everyday coping strategies.

Approaches that guide online work and what to expect

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and intimacy. In online sessions this helps people trace patterns in their closest relationships and learn new ways to connect and set boundaries.

Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the centre, using active listening and empathy to help people feel heard. This approach supports those coping with grief, loss, identity questions and the emotional effects of trauma.

Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences influence present feelings and behaviour. It can be useful for understanding recurring patterns, codependency, abandonment issues and how earlier events still affect everyday life.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The counsellor will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, needs and preferences, and will adapt over time as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare and travel while keeping therapeutic continuity.