About Vania
Vania Piludu helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those facing relationship strain, grief, intimacy concerns and challenges around eating, sleep and parenting. Vania welcomes clients dealing with career pressures, bipolar issues, compassion fatigue and major life changes.
She speaks English and Italian and practises from the United Kingdom. Vania keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first and then helps people notice patterns that get in the way.
How Vania works
Together they set small, achievable steps to reduce distress and build coping skills. Sessions are calm and non-judgemental to make talking easier. Her approach borrows from a few different methods.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new ways of acting. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients make choices that match their values even when feelings are hard. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships affect trust and closeness now.
With 21 years of professional experience and HCPC registration she has worked with many presentations and complex needs. Vania supports people with additional concerns such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, autism spectrum needs, abandonment issues and communication difficulties. Her broad experience helps when problems overlap.
People can expect a collaborative pace. She adapts the work to what each person can manage in their life. Practical tools, emotion regulation skills and clearer understanding of patterns are typical outcomes of their time together.
Vania lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Vania works with
The areas below are the ones Vania selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | HCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It focuses on choosing actions that match what matters to someone, which can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. It uses simple experiments and behaviour changes to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood and unhelpful habits.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns of closeness and trust. This work can be useful for people dealing with intimacy concerns, abandonment issues or communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or combine methods that match a person's needs, goals and preferences. Sessions begin with conversation about what is most important and what practical steps feel manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and time permit. Phone sessions remove the need to be on camera and can fit a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written check-ins or want ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around a busy life.
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