Thaís IglesiasBACP

Thaís Iglesias is a counsellor with ten years of experience supporting people through trauma, grief, eating concerns, low self-esteem and depression. She works with a broad range of emotional struggles and pays attention to how distress shows up in the body and in everyday life. Thaís speaks English and Portuguese and practises in the United Kingdom. Her background includes a degree in Psychology and training in Psychoanalysis, plus a specialisation in Mental Health. While working in both private practice and public institutions she saw how some people find words alone are not enough to name their pain. That observation led her to complete a Master’s degree in Art Therapy in the United Kingdom. In sessions Thaís offers a calm, attentive space where people can notice feelings and express them in different ways. She encourages practical steps that fit each person’s pace and needs. Sessions draw on psychological conversation and creative methods when helpful. She often helps clients explore body image, chronic pain or illness, communication problems, guilt and shame, and questions of life purpose. Pregnancy and childbirth is also listed among her focus areas for those wanting support around that time. People meet her to work through panic, social anxiety and phobia, or to address eating difficulties and bereavement. Her approach aims to help someone recognise patterns, try small changes, and build more steady ways of coping.

Approaches that combine talking and creative expression

Thaís combines talking therapies informed by psychoanalytic ideas with expressive work from art therapy. Psychoanalytic-informed conversation helps people notice recurring feelings and relationship patterns that affect mood and behaviour. Art therapy offers techniques that let someone show what is hard to say, using simple creative tasks to access emotion and memory. These approaches can be useful for trauma, grief, eating concerns, body image and depression because they offer different ways to name experience. Thaís treats the choice of method as a collaborative process. She will discuss options and adapt what happens in sessions to match a persons needs, goals and comfort level. If you are considering online work, confirm the current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow more flexible scheduling. Some creative or movement-based tasks can be adapted for remote work, while others may be suggested as between-session activities. The emphasis is on practical ways to bring therapy into everyday life rather than on a specific delivery method.