About Vanessa
Vanessa East is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety and relationship strains. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, addiction and changes in career or parenting. Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Vanessa brings three years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She adapts her approach to what each person brings, combining conversational work with practical strategies.
Background and approach
This means some sessions focus on immediate coping skills, and others look at how past experiences affect present feelings. Her style is collaborative and responsive. She uses elements from attachment-based work to look at relationship patterns and from cognitive behavioural methods to notice and change unhelpful thoughts.
Vanessa also draws on client-centred principles to keep sessions grounded in the person’s own goals and values. Therapy may include talking about early life, exploring bodily responses, or practising simple techniques to ease anxiety between sessions. Vanessa aims to make sessions clear and straightforward so people can use what they learn day to day.
People come for short-term help with a problem or for longer exploration of recurring patterns. She explains options at the start and helps clients choose what feels most useful. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, using a subscription model that you can cancel at any time.
Approaches that shape online therapy sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds influence current relationships and self-worth. In online sessions this can mean noticing patterns in how someone seeks closeness or avoids it, and practising new ways of relating within everyday life. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and repetitive worry because it teaches clear tools to try between sessions. Client-centred therapy places the person’s goals and experience at the heart of the work, offering a supportive space to reflect and decide what changes matter most.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss what feels most relevant, try methods that match your goals, and adjust the plan as you learn what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to find a style that fits your needs and practical life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or when being on camera is tiring. Live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins, emotional support between sessions, or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on progress and learning.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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