Vanessa Anthony
Calm practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Vanessa
Vanessa Anthony welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or drained by life’s pressures. She meets each person with calm attention and practical steps. Vanessa writes simply and listens closely so people can say what matters and take small actions that help.
She is Vanessa Anthony and she works from the United Kingdom. Vanessa uses straightforward counselling to help with stress and anxiety. She also supports people coping with grief, depression, addictions and trauma.
Background and approach
Conversations often focus on everyday problems like sleeping, eating, parenting strain, work pressures and relationship or intimacy worries. Her approach draws on client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques. That means sessions centre on the person’s own goals while also looking at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going.
Vanessa mixes in mindfulness and solution-focused steps when these suit the situation. She has nine years of experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which are recorded as supplied. Vanessa has worked with people from different cultural and faith backgrounds and with neurodivergent clients.
She aims to make therapy clear and practical. Sessions are delivered online in formats that fit busy lives. The focus is on small changes that add up, learning new ways to cope, and building on strengths people already have.
Vanessa encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.
What Vanessa works with
How Vanessa works
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Listed by Vanessa among the ways they work.
Listed by Vanessa among the ways they work.
Listed by Vanessa among the ways they work.
Listed by Vanessa among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Vanessa’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience first. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people set their own goals, build on strengths and find the pace that suits them. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours and uses practical tasks and experiments to shift how someone feels and acts. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus during daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Vanessa will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and adjust methods as understanding grows. Together they decide whether more client-centred listening, CBT tasks or mindfulness practice fits the needs of the moment.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging let people write through a problem, keep a record of thoughts, or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, family and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
