About Verity
Verity Spencer is a BACP counsellor with fourteen years of experience offering support for stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps people cope with life changes, grief, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, parenting pressures and work-related strain.
Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping people make sense of difficult feelings and decide on practical next steps. Verity uses a blend of talking therapies to suit each person.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding patterns that cause distress and trying small changes to reduce that distress. She listens without judgement and pays attention to each person’s cultural and religious background. Her training combines client-centred, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural ideas.
This means conversations may range from exploring past patterns to trying practical strategies for day-to-day problems. The style is collaborative and paced to what the client is ready for. Before counselling Verity worked in radio and television, including international broadcasting roles.
That experience widened her exposure to different cultures and ways of seeing the world. It informs the respectful, considerate way she meets people in sessions. Verity offers sessions in the United Kingdom and conducts appointments by video call, phone, live chat or messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that suits each person.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns in closeness and trust and apply different ways of relating in everyday life.Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the centre. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what is said and supports the person to find their own solutions. This approach is useful for building self-esteem and processing difficult feelings.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. In practical online sessions clients might try simple exercises between meetings to test new ways of thinking and reduce anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss which methods fit best with a person’s goals, needs and preferences. That decision is made together and can change as the work progresses.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls let people see and hear each other for fuller conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a short break. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around family, work and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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