About Vanessa
Vanessa East is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief and trauma. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, addiction, body image and parenting pressures. Vanessa works with a wide range of emotional and behavioural concerns, including ADHD, bipolar issues and problems around intimacy and self‑esteem.
She uses a flexible, person-focused way of working. Sessions are tailored around what someone brings each week. That can mean solving a specific difficulty or looking back at early experiences to understand current patterns.
Background and approach
Vanessa blends talking therapy with practical tools. She draws on cognitive techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and on attachment ideas to understand relationship patterns. There is also space to work with the body and emotions using somatic ideas when that feels useful.
Her background includes three years of clinical experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has practised across different services and with a broad range of presenting problems. People can expect a collaborative approach.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and paced to the individual. Vanessa helps clients set manageable goals and develop skills they can use beyond therapy.
How Vanessa's approaches work in online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how you form bonds, respond to rejection or closeness, and how those habits show up in today's relationships. This approach can help people who feel stuck in repeated relationship problems or who want clearer emotional connection.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, works on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build new routines. CBT is often useful for anxiety, stress and mood difficulties because it offers concrete steps to change day-to-day reactions.
Finding the right method is a shared process. Vanessa will talk through your needs and goals and help you try different ways of working. That might mean mixing approaches so the sessions address thinking patterns, emotions and bodily reactions together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation while phone calls can be easier when you need to use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or shorter, more flexible contact. These options give practical flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- 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
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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