About Victoria
Victoria Porteous uses a conversational, person-centred style that aims to feel like a real conversation rather than a clinical interrogation. She blends practical tools with empathy so people can talk through what feels stuck. Victoria draws on 11 years of practice and her own life experience to shape how she works with clients.
Her approach is grounded in acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed thinking and cognitive-behavioural techniques. She often brings emotion-focused work into sessions when relationships and intimacy issues are central.
How Victoria works
That mix allows her to address problems from different angles and find what helps most in everyday life. Victoria has worked with complex trauma survivors and ran counselling services for a Government-backed trauma charity during the Covid period. She also collaborates with charities receiving referrals from doctors and government agencies, and sees people through independent practice and workplace coaching arrangements.
Clients come to her for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, low self-esteem, grief and relationship or family difficulties. She also supports people facing career uncertainty, compassion fatigue, and issues related to identity and intimacy. Victoria pays particular attention to blended family and estrangement dynamics.
Sessions aim to be down-to-earth and sometimes gently challenging, with room for humour where it fits. Victoria holds the NCPS credential and practices in the United Kingdom. She makes time to help people find small, practical steps that can shift how they feel and act.
Victoria lists 10 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Victoria’s approaches translate to online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, low motivation and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand and change those patterns to feel more supported and connected. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and offers practical exercises to change them, which can ease stress, anxiety and low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods that suit the person. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging - make therapy easier to fit around life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and reading non-verbal cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text options allow shorter check-ins and ongoing written reflections between sessions. These choices give flexibility and make it simpler to maintain continuity of care.
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