About Victoria
Victoria Swart uses an integrative, client-centred approach to help people facing anxiety, stress and loss. She is presented as personable and down-to-earth, and she aims to make first steps feel manageable. Victoria holds an NCPS credential and brings seven years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom.
Her practice focuses on common and painful problems such as depression, trauma and abuse, grief and self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with addictions, bipolar mood difficulties, eating and sleeping struggles, and intimacy-related concerns.
How Victoria works
Victoria works with issues tied to life changes, career stress and communication difficulties. Victoria blends established methods to match each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to address unhelpful thinking, uses acceptance and commitment tools to clarify values and build coping, and employs attachment-informed perspectives to look at relationship patterns.
Emotionally focused and client-centred approaches shape how she listens and responds. Her background includes independent practice work plus voluntary roles supporting a suicide and suicide-prevention charity. She has experience that also covers adoption and foster care topics, ageing-related concerns, chronic health and caregiver stress, and identity and LGBT issues.
Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. Victoria invites people to set small goals, try manageable strategies between meetings, and check progress together. She encourages questions and keeps sessions straightforward for those feeling overwhelmed.
Victoria lists 12 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when emotions are uncomfortable. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. These skills can be practised between sessions to track progress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Victoria will explore what matters to each person and tailor methods to those goals. She collaborates on whether ACT, CBT or attachment-informed listening fits best and adjusts the plan as things change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and build rapport remotely. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or when a session needs to be shorter and simpler. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, ongoing reflections or times when writing helps process thoughts. Together these formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while using the therapeutic tools described above.
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