Aline De Sa Rodrigues de Oliveira, ACA

Aline De Sa Rodrigues de Oliveira is an ACA counsellor who uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people address everyday thoughts and habits. She works with adults facing anxiety, stress, depression and grief. She also supports people navigating relationship and family challenges. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese. Aline draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Schema Therapy in her work. She focuses on how thoughts and habits keep problems going and helps people try new ways of responding. Conversations are grounded and practical, with simple strategies to manage low mood, worry and emotional dependence. She has three years of clinical experience and originally trained in Brazil. That background informs her sensitivity to cultural change and to the practical strains of building life in a new country. Aline often supports people dealing with separation, attachment concerns, family of origin issues and the emotional effects of fertility or fatherhood challenges. In sessions she aims to build a trusting relationship where people feel heard and respected. Work may include noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, testing new behaviours and looking at long‑standing life patterns that cause pain. The pace is set by each person, with room for practical skills and deeper reflection. If someone is ready to start, Aline invites them to take a small first step and see how therapy fits with their life and goals.

How CBT and Schema Therapy translate to online work

Aline commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Schema Therapy. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. Schema Therapy looks at long-standing life patterns and emotional needs, offering ways to change repetitive responses that cause pain.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. She will work collaboratively to identify which techniques suit a person’s goals, preferences and current life demands. That conversation can include trying ideas from different approaches and adjusting methods as progress is made.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and avoiding travel time. Online work can make it easier to use worksheets, practise behavioural exercises between meetings and check in without needing to be somewhere else afterwards. The exact session formats available should be confirmed before booking, as the therapist's profile does not list specific options.