About Vanessa
Vanessa Anthony offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss or big life changes. She makes space for straightforward conversations and helps clients find day-to-day ways to feel steadier. Vanessa names strengths clients already have and uses those strengths to guide next steps.
Vanessa works in a person-centred way, which means she follows what matters most to each client and listens without judgement. She also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions.
How Vanessa works
Those approaches are mixed with practical techniques from mindfulness and solution-focused work when helpful. She has nine years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and NCPS. Vanessa has supported people dealing with trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, low self-esteem and a wide range of everyday difficulties including sleep and eating concerns.
Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic pain and illness, parenting challenges and communication problems. Vanessa also works with people affected by domestic violence, divorce and separation, and substance misuse. Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative.
Conversations usually include checking what matters most, setting small goals, and testing new coping strategies between sessions. Vanessa helps clients review progress and change the plan when needed.
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What Vanessa works with
The areas below are the ones Vanessa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Vanessa’s approaches work online
Vanessa commonly blends person-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness in online sessions. Person-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to the client, helping them clarify priorities and make choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect, and uses practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving. Mindfulness offers simple attention and grounding exercises to reduce racing thoughts and improve calm in day-to-day life.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Vanessa will collaborate with each client to identify goals, try methods that suit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is reviewed. The therapeutic relationship and shared decision making guide which techniques are used and when to change direction.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be quicker when bandwidth is limited, and messaging provides flexible short check-ins or ongoing written work. These options allow clients to choose what best suits their routine and communication style.
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