About Florbela
Florbela Santos is a counsellor who bases her work on somatic awareness and person-centred care. She draws on 13 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, trauma and relationship strain. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Her sessions focus on what is happening in the body as well as the mind. That means noticing physical reactions, breath, posture and sensations alongside thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
This approach can help people who struggle with strong emotions, trauma responses, sleep and eating issues, or addictions to reconnect with themselves. She uses client-centred listening to shape conversations around each person’s priorities. The room is practical and plain-speaking.
Together they consider small, realistic steps people can try between sessions to build coping and self-care. Florbela also draws on existential and psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns, attachment or family-of-origin issues. Mindfulness practices are offered to calm the nervous system and improve focus in daily life.
She adapts her style to what each person needs rather than following a fixed recipe. Florbela is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with people in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Working with body and mind online
Somatic Therapy in her practice focuses on bodily sensations, breath and posture as clues to emotional states. It can be useful for people who have anxiety, trauma responses, sleep or eating disturbances because it helps them notice and regulate physical reactions.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work. The therapist listens without judgement, follows what matters most to the client, and helps them set goals at their own pace. This approach supports people dealing with relationship strain, low self-esteem and life transitions.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. The counsellor will discuss options and collaborate with the client to choose approaches that fit their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative step helps shape an agreed plan for sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to attend from home or when schedules are tight, and they let people try different ways of communicating to see what feels most comfortable. Registered professionals can adapt somatic, client-centred and mindfulness tools to work well over these mediums.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English