About Vania
Vania Piludu is a counsellor with 21 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, depression and relationship concerns. She speaks English and Italian and accepts international clients. Her practice also covers issues such as grief, intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stresses, career changes and compassion fatigue.
Vania aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings. She encourages practical steps alongside emotional listening, so clients leave sessions with things to try between meetings.
Background and approach
The first appointment is about understanding concerns and agreeing on small, realistic goals. Her work draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. These methods are used flexibly to suit each person’s situation rather than following a fixed programme.
Vania pays attention to relationships and past patterns that shape current difficulties. Clients often explore how their thoughts and behaviours maintain anxiety or low mood and practise new responses in session. She also offers skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to manage strong emotions and from client-centred care to keep sessions focused on the person’s priorities.
Sessions are available online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Vania discusses which format will fit a person’s life and aims, and she works with them to set a comfortable pace for progress.
How online therapy and focused approaches fit together
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to small actions that matter. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it suits worries, sleep problems and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current connections and can help when relationship patterns, abandonment or attachment issues cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through your goals, symptoms and preferences and suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, mood tracking or people who prefer to write rather than speak. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work across different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian
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