Vanessa Putnam
Person-centred counsellor with practical therapies
About Vanessa
Vanessa Putnam is a counsellor who uses a person-centred approach to help people get through hard times. She draws on nine years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. Vanessa aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful for everyone who reaches out.
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression and grief. Relationship and family topics come up often, as do parenting questions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and issues linked to addiction and trauma.
Background and approach
Vanessa also supports people facing career decisions, compassion fatigue and the practical strains of illness and caregiving. Her practice includes attention to attachment issues and blended family challenges. She has experience relating to autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic pain and long-term illness, end-of-life and hospice matters, and the stresses that come with cancer or caring roles.
Multicultural concerns, prejudice and communication problems are also part of her focus. Vanessa blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques and psychodynamic thinking. She also draws on systemic ideas when family patterns are important.
Together with each person she tailors how sessions run and what to prioritise. Sessions are offered in English and take place online using video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and arranging a time that fits your schedule.
Vanessa aims to create a calm, practical space to talk and plan the next steps.
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.
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Vanessa combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy to guide online sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person, helping them feel understood and to set goals at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques as therapy progresses. This collaborative plan can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy using video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller connection matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick reflections, journalling between sessions, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and mobility or health constraints.
| 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
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
