About Virginie
Virginie Sussest uses a person-centred approach to therapy, shaping conversations around each person’s needs and goals. She brings 11 years of professional experience and works in English, French, and Italian. Virginie focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety and depression, and on relationship and family concerns.
She aims to make the space respectful, sensitive and compassionate. Virginie spent over a decade supporting people affected by grief and loss at Cuse Bereavement Care.
How Virginie works
That work gave her steady experience with trauma, bereavement and the ripple effects of loss on daily life. She also supports people dealing with addiction, anger and self‑esteem difficulties, and those coping with life changes such as illness or caregiving responsibilities. Her approach blends attachment-based thinking with client-centred care and practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy.
She draws on psychodynamic ideas and solution-focused methods to help people spot patterns and try different ways of managing problems. Sessions emphasise clear, manageable steps rather than long academic discussion. Virginie tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation.
She helps people talk through intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress and career pressures. She also offers support for neurodiversity-related concerns and for people dealing with adoption, abandonment or blended family dynamics. People meet her for a range of worries including bipolar management, compassion fatigue, ADHD and chronic health challenges.
Her work is practical and paced to fit what the person wants to achieve. If someone is ready to begin, she aims to offer steady, respectful support during change.
Virginie lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Virginie works with
The areas below are the ones Virginie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- 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 | 11 |
| Languages | English, French, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Virginie uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand repeated difficulties in close connections and find new ways of relating. She also applies client-centred therapy, which puts the person’s experience at the heart of each session and shapes the pace and topics to what matters most.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviours. CBT is practical and suits worries such as anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and coping with life changes. Together these approaches help both understanding and action, so people can try small changes between sessions and review what works.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Virginie will discuss options and decide together which methods match a person’s goals and preferences. That collaborative planning helps set small, realistic steps and keeps the focus on what the person wants to achieve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared materials, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins and messaging lets people write between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or health constraints and provide flexible ways to keep progressing.
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