About Vanessa
Vanessa Anthony is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are struggling with stress and anxiety and guides them towards clearer coping strategies. Vanessa speaks plain language and aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
She uses a person-centred style that puts the client’s experience at the centre of sessions. That means listening closely, reflecting what matters, and helping people recognise their own strengths.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small, practical changes. Vanessa has nine years of experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. She has supported people facing family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, depression, addiction concerns and a range of relationship and intimacy-related issues.
Her work also addresses sleep, eating, anger, self-esteem, career change and managing life transitions. She is familiar with additional areas such as attachment and abandonment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic illness and pain, and communication problems. Vanessa also works with people dealing with domestic violence, separation, parenting strains and fatherhood issues.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Vanessa welcomes clients who want a collaborative, down-to-earth approach and prefers to start by understanding each person’s goals and daily realities.
How Vanessa’s approaches work online
Vanessa commonly combines person-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people make steady progress. Person-centred therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and helping people identify their own strengths and goals; it suits those who need space to make sense of difficult feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments that change how someone feels and behaves; it is often used for anxiety, stress and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Vanessa will discuss your worries, goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working that fit you. Decisions about technique and pace are made together so the plan feels realistic and relevant to day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can work for shorter check-ins or for those who prefer not to be on camera. These options help people fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments while keeping continuity of care with a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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