Flavia Melo

Flavia Melo is a counsellor with seven years of clinical experience who focuses on the link between body and mind. She draws on somatic ideas to help people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, trauma or low mood. Flavia works with issues that commonly affect women, including bodily experience, self-image and life changes.

Her process begins by mapping emotional experience and personal goals in the first session. She uses hands-on somatic techniques alongside talk-based work to notice how feelings show up in the body. Music and art are sometimes brought into sessions as ways to express difficult material without relying only on words.

Flavia combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness approaches with somatic practices and Internal Family Systems to help people change unhelpful patterns. She encourages small experiments between sessions so new ways of coping can be practiced in everyday life. Sessions are practical and paced to each person's needs.

She supports people coping with relationship strain, intimacy issues, parenting pressures, body-image concerns, eating and sleep problems, and life transitions such as pregnancy and postpartum. Flavia also works with panic, seasonal mood changes, and self-harm-related struggles when relevant to a client's goals.

Flavia offers therapy in English and Portuguese and sees clients in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. Her BACP credential indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

How somatic and cognitive approaches translate online

Flavia uses somatic work and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice and change patterns. Somatic Therapy focuses on how emotions show up in the body, using breathing, movement and sensing exercises to reduce physical tension and stuckness. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical steps to test and change unhelpful thinking.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide what helps most, reviewing how techniques land and adjusting exercises to match a client's goals and preferences. This often means trying different tools and pacing to see what feels most useful.

The biography did not list session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel and allowing more flexible scheduling. It can allow shorter check-ins between longer sessions, quieter times that suit work breaks, or avoiding video when that feels difficult. Registered and accredited professionals can adapt exercises so breath work, body sensations and CBT experiments still translate into remote sessions.