About Vanessa
Vanessa Teixeira is a counsellor who uses practical, person-focused approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She communicates calmly and directly to make sessions feel accessible and useful for everyday life. She works from several evidence-based approaches and adapts them to each person's situation.
Sessions focus on simple, testable strategies such as noticing thoughts, practising new skills, and setting small, achievable goals. Conversations are guided by respect, sensitivity and practical problem solving.
Background and approach
Vanessa has six years of professional experience in mental health settings. That time includes work supporting people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and relationship concerns. She also has experience with related issues such as attachment difficulties, body image and chronic illness.
Her credential is NCPS, which she uses alongside a mix of therapeutic methods to match each person's needs. Vanessa speaks English and Portuguese and works with people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. Sessions are tailored so people can move at a pace that feels right for them.
Taking that first step can feel daunting. Vanessa aims to offer steady, practical support while you try out new ways of coping and relating to yourself and others.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings without letting those thoughts control actions. It is often used for anxiety, stress and motivation issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns that form in close relationships and helps people build more supported ways of relating; it can be useful when past attachment experiences affect current relationships or self-worth.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about goals and preferences and adapt methods as those needs become clearer. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what feels most helpful for you.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for more in-depth sessions and visual connection. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a short break in a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for quick check-ins, skill practice or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to continue work around work, study and travel while using approaches such as ACT and CBT in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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