Azora Guimarães

Azora Guimarães is a counsellor registered with NCPS with three years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with adults facing trauma and abuse, grief, eating and body image concerns, ADHD, anxiety, stress, relationship and intimacy issues, and life changes such as separation or parenting challenges. Azora also supports people dealing with addiction, sleeping difficulties, career uncertainty and compassion fatigue, and she accepts international clients.

Her approach blends attachment-based and client-centred ways of working. Sessions focus on talking through difficult experiences and building practical coping strategies. She uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships shape present patterns, and mindfulness techniques to help manage stress and intrusive thoughts. Azora also draws on the Gottman Method when couples want to rebuild connection or address conflict.

Azora has direct experience supporting survivors of sexual assault, domestic abuse, childhood neglect, grooming and other traumatic events. She volunteers with Women’s Aid as a counsellor and phone buddy, offering specialised listening for those recovering from domestic abuse or sexual violence. Her work includes helping people navigate legal or court-related processes and the emotional fallout of miscarriage or abortion.

She combines coaching tools, personal training experience and neuro-linguistic programming techniques in work around eating, food-related issues and body image. Azora offers a 12-week reflective booklet as a practical companion to therapy for people wanting to reshape their relationship with food.

With clients who are couples, she helps rebuild intimacy, manage cultural differences and address betrayals or resentments. Azora encourages a gradual, collaborative process so people can test whether her way of working fits their needs before committing further.

Approaches used in online sessions

Azora uses attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns and emotional reactions; this can help when trust, intimacy or repeated relationship problems are the issue. She uses client-centred methods to prioritise the person’s own goals and pace, offering a space to talk things through without a fixed agenda. Mindfulness therapy is used to teach breathing and attention skills that reduce anxiety and help manage intrusive thoughts and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Azora will discuss options with each person and try different ways of working based on needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where methods are adjusted as progress and responses become clearer.

Confirm which session formats are available before booking, as the biography does not list them. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins, and remove travel time. They can also be adapted so someone uses audio only to reduce video time, or schedules sessions that fit around work or childcare. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists often discuss practical arrangements at the first meeting to find what suits day-to-day life.