About Vanessa
Vanessa East helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, grief and addiction. She works with issues like intimacy, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem and career stress. Vanessa also supports people living with bipolar disorder, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She is named Vanessa East and holds BACP registration. Vanessa uses a flexible, person-focused style. She listens first and then tailors sessions to the issue you bring.
Conversations can focus on practical coping skills or on digging into early life and attachment patterns that still affect you.
How Vanessa works
Her approach draws on several methods. She blends attachment work with cognitive techniques and client-centred listening. She can also use dialectical ideas and existential questions to help people make sense of difficult choices.
Sessions may include talking, grounding and body-aware techniques to help manage strong feelings. Vanessa describes therapy as a shared process where you set priorities and she offers tools and perspectives that fit your pace. She has three years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Vanessa works with an array of concerns including abandonment, attachment issues, autism and neurodiversity, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, communication and blended family matters. Therapy is offered in English and international clients can be seen. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
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Vanessa lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| 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
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape how people feel and connect now. It can help when trust, abandonment or attachment wounds affect current relationships and self-view. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work by offering empathic listening and reflection so people can find their own solutions and build self-worth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings and change unhelpful patterns.The right approach is something to discover together. Vanessa will discuss your goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then suggest a pathway that blends methods as needed. This is a collaborative process where the therapist adjusts pace and technique based on how you respond.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let you see facial cues and use interactive exercises, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for a quick check-in, and live chat or text messaging suit short updates or people who prefer writing. These formats offer flexibility for different days, energy levels and practical needs while keeping the focus on meaningful therapeutic work with registered professionals.
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