About Victoria
Victoria Livesey helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family strains. She welcomes straightforward conversations and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Victoria is named up front so readers know who they would be speaking with.
She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings. Sessions aim to make emotions easier to understand and respond to. The goal is clearer thinking and more workable day-to-day coping.
How Victoria works
Victoria is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often shown as BACP. She brings four years of professional experience to her practice. That background includes supporting people through depression, trauma, addiction and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem.
Her approach blends client-centred listening with emotion-focused work and practical techniques. Mindfulness exercises and brief solution-focused steps are used when they suit the person’s goals. Trauma-focused strategies are available for people dealing with past harm.
Victoria works mainly during daytime hours Monday to Thursday from 8am to 5pm. Sessions can fit around work or caring responsibilities. She supports people who want coaching-style help alongside therapy for navigating life changes and rebuilding routine.
To begin, a simple matching process is used so people can find a good fit and book sessions that suit their schedule. Sessions are delivered online using a mix of video, phone and messaging formats.
Victoria lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Victoria works with
The areas below are the ones Victoria 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- 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
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| 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 work focuses on listening without judgement and helps people make sense of their feelings. It is useful for stress, low mood and times of uncertainty. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and process the emotions that shape their relationships and responses to loss or hurt. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day focus.Choosing an approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then try methods that suit the person. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and other commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical coping skills.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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