Camila De Oliveira Mendes Leal

Camila De Oliveira Mendes Leal offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma or life changes. She helps clients who need clearer coping tools, steadier mood regulation, and better understanding of emotional patterns. Camila writes plainly and listens carefully so people feel heard from the first meeting.

Camila trained as a psychologist in Brazil and is a Level 4 Counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). She blends deeper talk work with practical techniques that focus on the body and breath. Sessions aim to uncover unhelpful patterns and give simple ways to manage strong feelings.

Her practice draws on psychoanalysis methods to look at underlying conflicts and recurring relationship patterns. She pairs this with breathwork called HeartMath to reduce anxiety and support emotional regulation. Camila also uses elements of neuro-linguistic programming and hypnotherapy to help reframe habits and access internal resources.

Camila works with adolescents and adults, and has particular experience supporting people after trauma and during the perinatal period. She also helps with chronic stress, parenting challenges, and self-esteem concerns. Her approach is steady, curious and focused on practical change.

Sessions are conducted in English and Portuguese, and she brings around ten years of clinical experience to her work. People looking for clear, compassionate support for stress, anxiety, parenting or trauma may find her style a good fit.

Approaches that combine deep reflection and practical tools

Camila uses psychoanalytic approaches to look at recurring emotional patterns and the roots of difficult reactions. This work helps people understand why certain situations trigger strong feelings and supports longer-term shifts in behaviour and relationships.

She integrates breathwork techniques often described as HeartMath to teach simple breathing practices that reduce stress and calm the nervous system. These are useful for anxiety, day-to-day stress and learnable before or between sessions.

Neuro-linguistic programming and elements of hypnotherapy are used to reframe unhelpful thoughts and access personal resources for change. These techniques can speed up practical habit shifts and support emotional regulation.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. Camila works collaboratively to identify what fits a person’s goals, needs and preferences, and she adapts methods as progress unfolds.

The therapist’s profile does not list specific online session formats. Please confirm which formats are offered before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. It can also suit people who want to use breathwork and skill practice in their usual surroundings rather than a clinic.