About Vanessa
Vanessa Gordon is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She works with adults facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and understandable for someone juggling family and work demands.
Vanessa uses several talking therapies to look at past patterns and present behaviour. Sessions often begin by listening to what matters most to the client and identifying small, manageable goals.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centred and psychodynamic ideas to understand how early relationships shape current reactions. Narrative therapy features in her work to help people rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves. Solution-focused techniques are used to identify immediate steps that can reduce anxiety and improve coping.
Internal Family Systems concepts may be used to explore different parts of a person's inner world and how they interact. She holds BACP membership, which is listed as a credential, and has five years of therapeutic experience. Vanessa also teaches mindfulness and self-care skills and offers gentle tools for relaxation and emotional regulation.
In sessions she aims to be direct and compassionate. She helps people develop clearer boundaries, healthier communication, and practical ways to manage cravings, low mood, or panic. The emphasis is on steady progress and building skills that fit daily life.
How Vanessa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centred Therapy places the client's experience at the core of each session, with the counsellor listening closely and reflecting back what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and can be useful for anxiety, low self-esteem and confusing emotions.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences and early relationships shape current reactions. It helps uncover patterns that fuel anxiety or unhelpful habits so clients can choose different responses in daily life.
Narrative Therapy supports people to separate themselves from their problems by exploring the stories they tell about themselves. Rewriting those stories can ease shame, guilt, or a sense of helplessness and open up new options for coping.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation from any room, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets someone reflect and reply in their own time. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping consistent support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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