About Vanessa
Vanessa Britton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 14 years in the counseling field. She began working in helping roles early and has since worked in prisons, drug and alcohol centers, in-home therapy, public schools, and community offices. Vanessa centers the person in each session and aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable.
Her work focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship challenges.
How Vanessa works
She also addresses specific issues like obsessive-compulsive behaviors, mood disorders, body image, and the effects of blended family dynamics. Vanessa pays attention to how co-occurring problems can affect daily life and recovery. In sessions she uses practical, goal-oriented methods to help people manage symptoms and make changes that fit their lives.
Vanessa draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to shape clear steps and skills. She adapts her approach to the needs and pace of each person. Vanessa aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She works to build plans that match individual goals and situations. Her style is supportive and direct, with an emphasis on skills people can try between meetings. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for people located in Pennsylvania.
Sessions are provided in English and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Vanessa lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches and online care options
Vanessa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on processing past harm and building coping skills to reduce the ways traumatic experiences affect daily life.She also uses Motivational Interviewing when people face substance use or readiness-to-change issues. That approach emphasizes listening, rolling with resistance, and helping people find their own reasons to change rather than pushing advice.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try strategies and adjust the plan over time to fit needs and pace.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief progress notes. These options offer flexibility to fit work, school, or caregiving schedules and make regular check-ins more manageable.
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