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Azora Guimarães, NCPS

Credentials: NCPS
Experience: 3 years
Practising in: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Sessions: Online only
Client ages: Adults, 18 and over

Works with Trauma and abuse GriefEating disordersCoachingADHD

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Azora Guimares offers calm, straightforward support for people facing trauma, anxiety, loss, or relationship strain. She writes plainly and listens carefully. Sessions focus on practical steps to feel steadier and clearer about what to do next.

Azora brings three years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential. She has worked with people affected by sexual assault, domestic abuse, childhood neglect, and other forms of trauma. She also helps those managing anxiety, depression, addiction, eating concerns, and identity-related stressors such as workplace racism.

Background and approach

Her practice combines talking therapy with practical tools. Sessions may include exploring how early relationships shape current patterns, noticing unhelpful thinking, and developing coping routines. She uses mindfulness exercises and client-centred attention to help people feel heard and less overwhelmed.

Azora has run workshops on identity and skin colour and volunteers as a counsellor and phone supporter with Womens Aid. That experience informs how she supports people navigating the impact of court processes, pregnancy loss, or recovery from domestic harm. She also draws on coaching, personal training, and neuro-linguistic programming techniques for work around body image and eating concerns.

A 12-week reflective booklet is available as a structured tool to complement therapy and build healthier attitudes to food. Sessions are offered in English and can be delivered online. The first steps are simple - use the platforms matching process, book a session, and see how the approach feels in practice.

How Azora's approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy recognises how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviour. Work in this approach often focuses on understanding emotional responses and building more supported ways of relating, which can help with grief, attachment issues, and relationship worries.

Client-Centred Therapy places attention on the person's own experience and priorities. The therapist offers empathetic listening and gentle guidance so clients can find their own solutions, useful for anxiety, self-esteem, and life transitions.

The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend approaches that match their needs and goals. Finding the right approach is part of the work - Azora will check in about what helps and adapt methods over time so the therapy feels relevant and useful.

Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging add flexibility to fit therapy around work, study, or caring responsibilities. Video suits deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, short text exchanges work for quick check-ins, and live chat can fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions and access support from wherever is most practical.

What concerns does Azora help with?

She supports people coping with trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, addictions, eating and body image issues, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting-related strain, and related stressors.

What is her general therapeutic style?

Her style blends client-centred listening with practical exercises, mindfulness, and psychodynamic reflection to help people make sense of patterns and develop coping strategies.

How much professional experience does she have?

Azora has three years of experience working as a therapist and mental health professional, alongside volunteer work with Womens Aid.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is listed with NCPS and is based in the United Kingdom.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

Which session formats does she use?

Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How are sessions paid for?

Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions run on a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Most often

Trauma and abuse
Grief
Eating disorders

Also listed

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 3 years
Registered with: NCPS
Languages: English

Contacting Azora

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Azora Guimarães, NCPS

Background and approach

How Azora's approaches translate to online therapy

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Others working with trauma and abuse