About Vivienne
Vivienne Fowler helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and relationship struggles. She works with concerns such as coping with life changes, addiction, grief, trauma and intimacy-related issues. Vivienne is an ACA counsellor with five years of experience and aims to make first steps feel manageable.
Vivienne believes people know their own story and brings a down-to-earth way of working. She listens without rush and helps people notice their strengths.
How Vivienne works
Sessions focus on small, practical steps that fit into everyday life rather than long theory-heavy talks. Her approach blends a few evidence-informed methods to suit each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques to help with unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills.
Attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused work help where relationships, abandonment or intimacy issues are at the centre. Vivienne spends sessions helping people name what matters to them and try out new ways of responding. She explains ideas in clear language and practices exercises together during sessions.
Homework is practical and aimed at fitting into a busy week. People can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through problems and try different ways of coping. Vivienne supports goals such as improving sleep, reducing anxiety, managing mood swings like bipolar, and addressing work or career stress.
She also offers help for body image, caregiver strain, chronic illness and substance-related concerns.
Vivienne lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Vivienne works with
The areas below are the ones Vivienne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice unhelpful thoughts and to act in ways that match their values. It helps with anxiety, stress and coping through life changes by teaching simple acceptance and action skills. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thinking and behaviour patterns that keep problems going, and it is useful for anxiety, depression and sleep issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns shape current relationships and can help with abandonment, communication and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will work together with each person to choose suitable methods. Sessions begin with understanding goals and preferences, then try approaches in a collaborative way so people can see what fits best for them.
Online therapy here is offered by appropriately qualified therapists and includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video suits in-depth work where visual cues matter, phone can be quicker or needs less bandwidth, live chat allows shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or medical commitments and to keep momentum between meetings.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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