Counsellor profile
Zaida Fontes, NCPS
Counsellor - family and parenting concerns
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- Addictions
- Grief
- Attachment
About Zaida
Zaida Fontes is a counsellor registered with the NCPS and has nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with adults facing issues such as addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, grief and parenting concerns. She also helps people dealing with life changes and anger related to family matters.
Zaida takes a straightforward, person-focused approach. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them use their existing strengths to tackle problems. Sessions tend to focus on clear, practical steps alongside talking through painful feelings.
Her background includes supporting people through bereavement, trauma, and difficulties linked to family of origin and fatherhood issues. She also works with people coping with cancer in the family, caregiver stress, codependency and separation or divorce. Zaida draws on a mix of therapeutic ideas to address these concerns.
In practice she uses approaches that centre on relationships and emotion, alongside skills-based work. That might mean exploring attachment patterns that affect current relationships, or learning emotional regulation strategies from DBT-style methods. Conversations also attend to meaning and values when life events prompt big questions.
Zaida offers sessions in English and Portuguese and accepts international clients. Before booking, clients are invited to check the current session options and follow the platform steps to match and schedule an initial appointment.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Zaida blends attachment-informed work with emotionally focused and skills-based methods. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and helps people notice and change repeated interpersonal responses. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and organising strong feelings so they can be expressed and addressed more effectively in relationships. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress and improving communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Zaida will collaborate with clients to decide which ideas fit best, checking goals and preferences together. That collaborative process may mean trying different techniques until a workable combination is found.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can help fit therapy into weekdays and caring routines, and they make it easier to have shorter check-ins or to join without travel. Registered or accredited professionals, including counsellors, often use online work to make therapy more accessible while focusing on issues such as grief, parenting stress, addictions and relationship patterns.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Portuguese
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of family issues does she help with?
She helps people with family problems, family of origin issues, fatherhood issues, and communication problems.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a person-focused approach that combines relationship work and skills-based methods such as DBT and attachment-informed conversations.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has nine years of professional experience working with concerns like trauma, grief, addictions and depression.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the NCPS and practises from the United Kingdom.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She accepts international clients.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to meet her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
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