About Vanessa
Vanessa Gordon helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship problems. She works in a straightforward, calm way so people can talk about what is worrying them and find practical ways to move forward. Vanessa is introduced here by name to make it clear who will be supporting you.
Vanessa uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. She combines client-centred listening with narrative and psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape current reactions.
How Vanessa works
Solution-focused work helps people set reachable goals and notice small changes that make life easier. Her background includes five years of counselling practice and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is shown as BACP.
She draws on experience supporting people with depression, bipolar mood issues, addictions, trauma and abuse, and eating and intimacy-related concerns. Vanessa also works with practical life stressors such as career change, caregiver strain, chronic illness and family problems. Additional focus areas include body image, abandonment wounds, communication difficulties, guilt and shame.
She offers psychoeducation on self-care and self-love alongside therapy conversations. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort. Vanessa encourages small experiments between sessions and uses simple grounding and mindfulness practices when helpful.
Her style is warm, direct and aimed at helping people re-build clearer boundaries, healthier patterns and stronger self-understanding.
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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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and creating a supportive space where people set the pace and direction of their work; it helps when someone needs acceptance and clearer self-understanding. Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps separate problems from identity, which can be useful for issues like shame, body image and relationship patterns.Psychodynamic ideas examine how past experiences influence current feelings and reactions, giving tools to understand repeating patterns and attachment concerns. Vanessa draws on these approaches to tailor sessions to what each person needs, combining listening, exploration of history and practical steps for today.
Deciding on an approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods that suit the person’s needs and adjust as work progresses. This keeps therapy flexible and focused on meaningful change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which offer practical benefits. Video lets people read facial cues and have richer conversations, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier for brief check-ins, while live chat and messaging suit ongoing support or times when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life, and to continue work when travel or time constraints would otherwise be a barrier.
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