About Victoria
Victoria Olanipekun is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression and the effects of trauma. She offers calm, practical support for parents and adults who feel overwhelmed by strong emotions or life changes. Victoria uses clear, straightforward conversation to help clients make sense of what they are feeling.
Sessions aim to identify patterns, build coping skills and reduce intense reactions. She keeps the work personalised to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
With four years of experience Victoria draws on several approaches. She brings together attachment perspectives, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness practices to address day-to-day problems and deeper emotional patterns. This mix helps with symptoms and with understanding how past relationships affect current feelings.
She has a BACP credential, which is listed in her profile. Victoria offers sessions in English and accepts international clients who can join from other locations in the United Kingdom and beyond. Work with Victoria typically includes a short assessment, collaborative goal-setting and practical exercises to use between sessions.
Her style is warm and focused, aiming to help people feel steadier and more able to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. If someone wants to start, the process involves a brief questionnaire and arranging a session time that fits their schedule.
How Victoria's approaches translate to online work
Victoria uses attachment-based ideas to look at how earlier relationships shape current feelings, helping people understand patterns that show up in stress or anxiety. This approach often focuses on building a steadier sense of safety in relationships and reducing strong emotional reactions.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in her practice breaks problems down into thoughts, feelings and actions. Clients learn practical strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and to try small behavioural experiments that reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Mindfulness techniques are used alongside these approaches to teach simple attention and breathing exercises. These tools help with grounding during overwhelming moments and with noticing thoughts without getting pulled into them.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Victoria discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adapts methods as work progresses. She aims to match techniques to what each person finds most useful, so therapy feels relevant and manageable.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical options. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face feel and visual cues. Phone sessions work well if someone has low bandwidth or prefers not to use video. Live chat or text-based messaging can provide shorter check-ins, written reflections or support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to access help from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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