About Victoria
Victoria Ann Reid is a psychodynamic counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration and has nine years of practice supporting people through stress and anxiety. She presents as warm and gentle and aims to make it easier to talk about hard things.
She draws on psychodynamic ideas to help people understand how past experiences influence current feelings and relationships. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to work on anxiety and practical thinking habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help calm the body and focus attention in the moment. People contact her for a wide range of concerns. These include depression, relationship difficulties, sexual identity and gender dysphoria, grief, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes.
She also supports those facing addictions, self-harm, eating issues, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue. Victoria works with people exploring non-mainstream sexual cultures, questions about polyamory, and those encountering isolation or confusion about life purpose. She is experienced in helping people with attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, communication problems and the fallout from infidelity or family conflict.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different needs. International clients may be matched. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a session is scheduled according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Psychodynamic therapy helps people look at how early relationships and past experiences shape present feelings and patterns. It can be useful for understanding repeated relationship problems and long-standing emotional pain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It is practical and often helps with anxiety, low mood and stress by changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. These practices can reduce rumination and help with emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That decision is made together and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face from another location; phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer written communication or who need more frequent brief contact. These options help people access therapy across different time zones and circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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