About Virginie
Virginie Sussest is a counsellor with over 11 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing anxiety, stress and depression, and helps with relationship and family concerns. She aims to listen with respect and sensitivity and to tailor sessions to each person's situation.
Her background includes more than a decade with Cuse Bereavement Care, where she supported people affected by grief and loss. That work shaped her practical approach to helping people cope after painful changes.
Background and approach
She combines steady listening with techniques drawn from several therapeutic traditions. Virginie uses client-centred ways of working to build a trusting conversation and attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect current worries. She also draws on cognitive behavioural methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new patterns.
Sessions are adapted to what each person needs in the moment. People contact her for a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addiction, eating and sleeping issues, low self-esteem, and work-related stress. She also works with issues such as parenting strain, compassion fatigue and life transitions.
Practical coping strategies are balanced with time to process feelings and losses. Virginie speaks English, French and Italian and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. She describes therapy as a collaborative process and helps people set clear goals that fit their life and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Virginie blends client-centred work with attachment-based thinking and cognitive behavioural techniques. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and helping people find their own answers; it is useful for building trust and exploring personal concerns. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape feelings and patterns, which can help with anxiety, relationship worries and responses to loss. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours, and it is often used for anxiety, depression and stress.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Virginie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working. She adjusts methods over time so the approach fits what actually helps, and clients take an active role in planning sessions and homework tasks when relevant.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face work and suit in-depth discussion, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief reflections, ongoing check-ins and support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and day-to-day life, while keeping the focus on steady progress and reachable goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- 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
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French, Italian
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