Sara Villar Gonzalez, BACP

Sara Villar Gonzalez uses a person-centred, experiential approach to help people work through difficult feelings and life events. She draws on nine years of practice to support clients facing stress, anxiety, depression and addictions. Sara works in English and accepts international clients across the United Kingdom and beyond.

Sara focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. She helps people who are dealing with bereavement, trauma, cancer-related difficulties, eating and food-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those wrestling with relationship or family concerns, communication problems and issues around intimacy and commitment.

Her background includes work with mood disorders such as bipolar and with people coping with major life changes. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment worries, body image and codependency patterns. Sara also addresses anger, dissociation and substance dependence when these affect a person's wellbeing.

Clients can expect a collaborative process that honours their experience and strengths. Sessions aim to build coping skills, explore emotional patterns and improve how people relate to themselves and others. The approach is conversational and hands-on rather than purely theoretical.

Sara is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is noted as part of her professional background. She offers therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, using a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability via the Start Therapy button.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Sara works in a person-centred, experiential way that focuses on what happens in the moment and how feelings are experienced in the body. This approach helps people notice patterns, process grief or trauma and practise new responses when relationships or emotions feel overwhelming.

She also draws on practical coping-focused techniques that help with stress, anxiety and addictive behaviours. These techniques aim to build routine skills for calming, managing urges and improving day-to-day functioning after difficult life events.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist and client discuss needs, goals and preferences to choose what to try first and adjust as work progresses. This keeps therapy collaborative and adaptable to real life demands.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer shorter check-ins, written reflections or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel while keeping the focus on practical progress.