About Virginia
Virginia Bowley is a counsellor with 24 years of experience. She trained as a nurse and later worked for 25 years as a rehabilitation case manager for people with catastrophic injuries. She is accredited by the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP, and has worked in independent practice and further education settings.
She has also spent six years with Cruse bereavement care supporting people through loss. Her background includes online counselling experience and regular monthly supervision in line with the BACP code of ethics.
Background and approach
These roles have shaped a practical, down-to-earth approach to talking about hard things. In the therapy room she prefers to centre the person and their story. She uses client-centred ways of working to listen and reflect what matters most to each person.
She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help with unhelpful thinking and coping strategies when appropriate. Virginia supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief and depression, and those adjusting to big life changes. She also helps with relationship difficulty, addiction concerns, trauma and the emotional effects of chronic illness or disability.
Her wider focus includes issues such as attachment, caregiving strain and feelings of isolation. Sessions tend to be straightforward and practical. She combines calm, steady listening with concrete ideas for managing day-to-day problems.
Outside work she enjoys swimming, walking, cycling and reading, which she finds help keep perspective and energy.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and understanding the person’s experience. Online, this means sessions where the counsellor reflects what you say and helps you find your own solutions, which can suit emotional issues like grief, relationship strain and isolation.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, uses practical techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviours. In remote sessions this can include thought records, behavioural experiments and structured homework to reduce anxiety and manage mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That discussion can happen in an early session and be adjusted over time as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls are close to face-to-face meetings, phone sessions work well if you prefer not to be on camera, live chat can suit shorter check-ins and text-based messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caring duties or mobility limits, and let people choose the format that feels most practical for them.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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