About Victoria
Victoria Livesey is a counsellor with four years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or grieving, and those facing relationship or family tensions. Victoria creates a calm space where clients can talk honestly about what is on their mind.
She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable. Sessions are carried out during typical daytime hours, Monday to Thursday between 8am and 5pm.
Background and approach
Victoria explains what to expect and supports people as they find the right pace for change. In practice, she listens closely and follows the concerns a person brings. Victoria draws on client-centred methods that keep the person’s experience at the heart of the work.
She also uses emotionally focused ideas to help untangle relationship patterns and mindfulness skills to reduce stress in daily life. Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions can include short-term solution-focused planning or deeper trauma-focused work when needed.
Victoria helps people identify small steps they can take between sessions to notice progress. People come to her for a wide range of issues beyond anxiety and grief, including sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, work stress, ADHD-related challenges, and caring responsibilities. She also supports those working through identity and intimacy concerns.
Victoria works in English and sees clients across the UK.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Victoria commonly combines client-centred work with emotionally focused and mindfulness approaches. Client-centred work means the conversation follows the person’s concerns and priorities, helping them feel heard and understood. Emotionally focused ideas aim to identify patterns in relationships and help people change how they respond to strong feelings. Mindfulness practice introduces simple breathing and attention skills to reduce day-to-day stress and interrupt anxious cycles.Finding the right mix of methods is usually a collaborative process. Victoria will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and adjust the approach as the work progresses. Together the therapist and client decide whether short-term solutions, deeper trauma-focused work, or a blend of methods will be most helpful.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility in scheduling and let people keep therapy going across different routines and locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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