About Victoria
Victoria (Vix) Benson is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She draws on four years of clinical experience to help people who are feeling anxious, stressed or low. Vix aims to make the first step feel manageable and meets clients in a calm, respectful way.
Vix works in a client-led style. She believes people are the experts on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on reflection, gentle observation and thoughtful challenge rather than direct advice. In conversation she helps people notice patterns in thinking, feelings and behaviour. That can make choices clearer when someone wants to change a habit or cope with a difficult situation.
Typical concerns she supports include anxiety, stress, relationship questions, depression and coping with life changes. Vix also supports people with issues related to addiction, grief, trauma, eating and sleeping difficulties, and matters around intimacy and self-esteem. Additional focus areas include autism and Asperger syndrome, communication and family of origin problems.
Her background in psychodynamic ideas and relational methods informs how she listens and offers observations. Over time she helps people make sense of past patterns and apply new ways of relating to themselves and others. Sessions are offered in English and take place online using video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
How Vix's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people speak about what matters to them; it can be useful for anxiety, low mood and building self-esteem. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at past patterns and how they shape current feelings and relationships, helping people notice repeating cycles and make different choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Vix will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then recommend ways of working. That decision is collaborative and can be revised as therapy progresses.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help people access therapy around work, family commitments and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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