About Vivienne
Vivienne Fowler is an ACA counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she offers steady support while you find a way forward.
Vivienne works in a conversational, person-centred way. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and builds on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify what matters to the client, then develop small, achievable steps to reduce overwhelm and improve coping. Her approach draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and cognitive tools to spot unhelpful thinking. She also uses attachment-focused work to look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions.
Emotion-focused techniques are used when stronger feelings need naming and soothed. Vivienne has five years of professional experience in Australia supporting people through depression, grief, trauma and addiction concerns. She also helps with sleep problems, anger, career stresses and the strain of caregiving.
Her practice includes attention to issues such as body image, commitment worries, and coping with chronic illness. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Vivienne helps clients set clear goals and tries methods that fit their life.
She encourages gradual changes rather than quick fixes and checks in on what is working and what needs adjusting.
How Vivienne’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take small committed actions that fit those values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and motivation issues where shifting behaviour matters more than battling every thought. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments and new behaviours to reduce symptoms like low mood and sleep disruption. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current reactions and intimacy concerns; it helps when relationship patterns fuel anxiety or trust issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Vivienne will discuss options with the client and together decide what fits best for their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying a mix of techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and support consistent contact when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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