About Vanessa
Vanessa Putnam is a counsellor who uses a client-centred way of working to help people feel heard and understood. She brings nine years of experience to sessions and focuses on worries such as stress and anxiety. Vanessa aims to make the first step easier for people who are nervous about starting therapy.
She offers plainspoken, respectful care and adapts conversations to each person’s needs. Sessions often centre on practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy to manage anxious thoughts and routines.
Background and approach
There is also room to look deeper at how past experiences shape current patterns using psychodynamic ideas. Vanessa has worked with adults and with young people aged 14 to 25, and she has supported people through grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges and long-term health concerns. She also helps with sleep, self-esteem, coping with life changes and compassion fatigue.
Her approach is collaborative. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and a plan that feels doable. If patterns between family members are part of the issue she can consider them from a systemic viewpoint without running family sessions.
Sessions are offered in English in the United Kingdom. Vanessa holds BACP accreditation, which reflects her professional standing. Prospective clients can expect straightforward, calm guidance and practical steps to try between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches explained for online care
Client-Centred Therapy is about listening and responding to the person in front of the counsellor. It focuses on the client’s own pace and priorities and helps people feel understood before making changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It gives practical strategies for managing anxiety, improving sleep, and changing unhelpful routines so everyday life feels more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and the issues at hand, and agree together which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face when they prefer seeing body language. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates or when writing helps to clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, travel or caregiving commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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