Vanessa East
Compassionate, integrative counselling for complex problems
About Vanessa
Vanessa East helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy worries, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing career upheaval, bipolar challenges, ADHD and the fallout from major life changes.
Vanessa works with people who have experience of complex issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, autism and relationship struggles tied to kink culture. She takes a practical and adaptable approach in sessions.
Background and approach
Vanessa listens first to understand what matters most. Then she tailors the work to each person, mixing talking, practical skills and body-focused techniques. Her style is collaborative and gentle.
Clients are invited to explore both current problems and the early patterns that shape them. This might mean learning coping strategies for day-to-day stress, or tracing how past events affect present relationships. Vanessa trained in a range of integrative methods and draws on cognitive work, attachment ideas and emotion-regulation techniques.
She also uses elements that address bodily responses and sense of self, helping people reconnect with their experience. Vanessa is a BACP counsellor and practises from the United Kingdom. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions once a suitable time is found.
What Vanessa works with
How Vanessa works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that shape online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current bonds and self-worth; it helps people spot patterns in relationships and build more supported ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the heart of the work, offering non-judgemental listening and support to help people find their own solutions and make sense of their experience. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Vanessa collaborates with each person to agree what to try first, then adjusts methods as progress is made. Goals, preferences and day-to-day challenges guide the choice of tools so therapy feels relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility that suits busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people write between sessions, jot down thoughts or fit therapy into a break at work. These options make it easier to keep continuity and make steady progress, whatever form of contact fits best.
| 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
- 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-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
