About Vicky
Vicky Paterson is a counsellor who uses practical, structured methods to help people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individual adults who want clearer ways to handle worry, low mood, and difficult relationships. Vicky offers straightforward support focused on finding what helps day to day.
Vicky brings four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
She believes clients know their story best and draws on their strengths when planning therapy. Conversations in sessions aim to be calm, respectful and focused on practical steps. Her work often centres on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions.
She uses that approach to break problems into manageable parts and try new coping strategies between sessions. Vicky also pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns in relationships and self‑esteem. People come for help with a range of concerns including trauma and abuse, low confidence, body image, chronic health stresses, and difficulties communicating.
She supports exploration of attachment and abandonment themes and helps people who face life changes such as ageing or long-term illness. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. Vicky helps set small, realistic steps and reviews progress regularly.
She aims to make the process feel practical and achievable for someone juggling family life, work or health challenges.
Using CBT Online to Tackle Anxiety and Stress
Vicky primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people see how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing new responses and practising small behavioural changes that reduce worry and low mood.She frames this approach in a simple, step-by-step way so clients can try techniques between sessions and review what works. The choice of approach is collaborative - Vicky will talk through options and adapt methods to match each person's goals and preferences rather than imposing a single way of working.
Online therapy allows flexibility for people with busy lives or health concerns. Video calls are close to a face-to-face conversation and suit deeper work when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good short check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief updates or reflections into a busy day without needing to be on camera. Together these formats make it possible to build steady progress in ways that fit practical life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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