Sara Villar Gonzalez, BACP

Sara Villar Gonzalez is a counsellor who works from a Gestalt psychotherapeutic perspective. She draws on nine years of practice to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and depression. She also supports people facing relationship and family difficulties, grief, trauma and eating-related concerns. Sessions aim to help clients notice patterns in their thoughts and everyday habits and try different ways of responding.

Her approach puts attention on the present moment and on everyday experience. She encourages people to name what they feel and to see how thoughts and habits keep problems going. Work in sessions often involves practical steps to break unhelpful cycles and small experiments to test new ways of being between meetings.

She has worked with people dealing with cancer-related issues, bereavement and compassion fatigue, and offers support around intimacy, identity and LGBT concerns. Her practice also covers addiction, anger, self-esteem, career worries, ADHD and coping with life changes.

Sara is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She practices in the United Kingdom and communicates in English. She accepts international clients through the platform, and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

To begin, people use the Start Therapy button, fill in a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to the therapist's availability. Clients can expect straightforward, practical conversation and collaborative planning that connects thoughts and everyday habits to real change.

How Gestalt work and practical techniques translate online

Gestalt psychotherapeutic work focuses on present-moment experience and on how thoughts and everyday habits shape responses. In practice this means noticing what comes up in the session - thoughts, body sensations and reactions - and using simple, practical exercises to increase awareness and try different behaviours. This approach can help with anxiety, stress, relationship patterns and many forms of distress.

Alongside Gestalt, the practice emphasises working with thoughts and everyday habits directly. That often involves identifying recurring thought patterns, experimenting with small behaviour changes between sessions, and building clearer routines to support coping and recovery. These steps aim to make everyday life feel more manageable rather than rely on abstract explanations.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean leaning into Gestalt techniques for present awareness or using practical habit-focused strategies when that suits the issue at hand.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow check-ins around work or caregiving commitments. It can also let people choose quieter times for conversation, shorter check-ins when needed, or sessions without being on camera depending on available formats.