About Victoria
Victoria Small is a counsellor with ten years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She focuses on practical support for common and complex difficulties, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Victoria aims to meet people with warmth and respect so they feel heard from the first session.
Her approach is person-centred and straightforward. She listens to what matters most and helps people set small, achievable steps. Sessions often combine emotion-focused work with mindfulness and solution-focused techniques so clients can learn ways to cope now while working through deeper issues.
How Victoria works
Victoria has supported people with relationship and intimacy concerns, LGBT issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strains and career stress. She also works with addictions, bipolar mood challenges and ADHD. Additional areas include body image, chronic illness, caregiving stress and the aftermath of domestic violence or abuse.
In practice she adapts conversations and tools to each person. That might mean guided mindfulness exercises, mapping out a clear action plan, or using trauma-informed ways to process painful memories. The emphasis is on practical change and emotional safety, paced to what the client can manage.
Sessions are offered in English and provided online via video, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy means the conversation starts with the person and their priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify what matters and what they want to change. This approach suits people who need a steady, non-judgemental space to make decisions.Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and shifting emotional patterns that keep someone stuck. It helps people notice core feelings, name them, and practice new ways of responding in relationships or stressful situations. This can be useful for grief, attachment concerns and intense emotional reactions.
Victoria treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will discuss options and adapt methods to fit individual needs, goals and preferences. Over the first few sessions she and the client will agree on the best mix of listening, skills practice and action planning.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for more in-depth talking and exercises that use body language. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter, ongoing support and written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties and daily life.
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