About Victoria
Victoria Swart is a counsellor with seven years' experience working with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She holds NCPS credentialing and offers straightforward, empathetic support for issues like grief, self‑esteem, addictions and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at helping people take the next small step when life feels overwhelming.
Victoria combines talking therapies with practical tools. She listens first, then helps people identify a manageable plan.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now, and on skills to cope with stress, sleeping or eating changes, and strong emotions. She also addresses identity, loss and major life transitions. Her work draws on several approaches including cognitive behavioural techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment‑informed ways of working.
These approaches are used to reduce anxious thinking, improve coping, and strengthen how people relate to others. Therapy is adapted to each person’s needs rather than following one fixed method. Victoria has experience supporting people through complex concerns such as bipolar symptoms, chronic pain and caregiving stress.
She also helps with body image, parenting strain, workplace pressure and grief after bereavement. Her background includes clinical practice, life coaching and volunteering for a suicide prevention charity. Sessions are offered from the United Kingdom and in English, and she works with people internationally.
Practical next steps are simple: complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule an initial session to discuss goals and preferred ways of working.
How online therapy and approach fit together
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes because it focuses on practical steps rather than fighting every anxious thought.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It gives clear techniques to reduce anxious thinking, improve sleep or change unhelpful patterns that feed depression and worry.
Attachment‑Based Therapy explores how past relationships shape current reactions and closeness with others. It can help people understand and change patterns in relationships and intimacy related worries.
Victoria treats the choice of approach as a shared process. She will discuss what feels most helpful and adapt methods to fit a person's goals and preferences. That means you can try different ways of working and focus on practical outcomes together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text‑based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check‑ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring duties or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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