About Victoria
Victoria Toussaint Thomas supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and addiction. She helps with self-esteem, relationship and workplace problems, and guides clients through life changes and compassion fatigue. Victoria also focuses on intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, anger, career concerns and feelings of isolation.
Victoria works from a person-centred viewpoint that treats each person as the expert on their own life. She listens without judgement and uses that listening to help people notice patterns and make different choices.
How Victoria works
Conversations can be straightforward talk therapy or include creative ways of working such as drawing, visualisation and breathwork. Her approach recognises that change often takes time. She aims to offer a steady, compassionate space for people to explore hard emotions like guilt, shame, abandonment and attachment wounds.
Sessions also address practical concerns such as impulsivity, midlife re-evaluation and managing workplace stress. Victoria uses ideas from psychodynamic therapy to help uncover recurring patterns from the past, and she draws on Internal Family Systems to work with the different parts of a person’s internal experience. Together these ways of working help people build more self-compassion and clearer boundaries in daily life.
She holds membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Victoria practises in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English through a choice of online formats including video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, people use the site Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
Victoria lists 3 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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 adapt to online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and empathy so the person feels heard and understood; online formats allow this same attentive listening through conversation, reflective questions and supportive presence. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that repeat from the past and helps bring them into awareness, which can be explored across a few longer conversations or a series of shorter check-ins. Internal Family Systems works with internal parts or voices people notice; this approach can use guided visualisation and dialogue techniques that translate well to video or phone work.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try ways of working together that feel most helpful. That process is collaborative, with adjustments made as understanding grows and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and creative exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or suit lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, written reflection and ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to sustain therapy around work, family life and other commitments while still using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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