Sara Villar Gonzalez, BACP

Sara Villar Gonzalez is a Gestalt psychotherapeutic counsellor with nine years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. She works in a straightforward and respectful way and encourages clients to draw on their own strengths. Sara aims to help people make practical changes so they feel more connected to themselves and their goals.

She has worked with people facing bereavement, cancer-related difficulties, trauma and eating disorders. Relationship and family conflicts are also part of her practice, as are intimacy-related issues and challenges linked to identity including LGBT concerns. She lists a wide range of additional focus areas such as attachment and abandonment issues, body-image problems, codependency and anger concerns.

Sara uses Gestalt principles in her sessions, helping people notice patterns that show up in relationships and daily life. She emphasises present-moment awareness and simple experiments to test new ways of being outside sessions. This practical focus aims to make therapy feel relevant to day-to-day life.

Sara is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her work is based in the United Kingdom and she can support clients in English. International clients are accepted where arrangements are suitable for both parties.

To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. Scheduling is then arranged according to the therapist's availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How Gestalt work and practical therapy fit online

Gestalt-informed work focuses on what is happening for you right now and how patterns show up in relationships and day-to-day life. In practice this means noticing bodily cues, emotions and repeated behaviours, then trying small experiments to see what changes. This approach can help with anxiety, relationship patterns, intimacy concerns and stress-related problems.

Another common, evidence-based technique used alongside Gestalt ideas is behavioural planning. This involves setting small, manageable activities to test new responses and build confidence over time. It tends to help with addiction, depression and motivation difficulties by making change concrete and trackable.

Finding the best approach is a joint process. The counsellor will work with each person to agree goals, try methods that suit their needs, and adjust as progress is made. People are encouraged to give feedback about what helps and what does not, so the plan evolves together.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm which formats are currently offered before booking as the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also assist people who are living abroad by offering continuity with a UK-based practitioner when both sides agree to arrangements.