Vanessa Richards
Calm, practical support for life changes
About Vanessa
Vanessa Richards helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and addiction. She also supports those dealing with grief, parenting strain, career changes, ADHD and difficulties like body image or chronic illness. Vanessa is based in the United Kingdom and works with clients in English.
She practises from a relational, client-centred stance. That means she aims to listen first and shape sessions around what the person says matters most.
Background and approach
She uses methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, dialectical skills to manage strong emotions, emotionally-focused ideas to improve connection, and motivational strategies to boost readiness for change. Vanessa brings five years of professional counselling experience to her work.
Her background also includes years supporting people affected by cancer through a clinical role, which gives her familiarity with illness, treatment challenges and the worries that families often face. She has supported people in both public health and personal settings. In sessions she aims to build a steady working relationship.
Conversations are practical and grounded. She helps people set small, achievable goals and use simple tools between meetings. People who choose this approach can expect a calm, listening style and clear explanations of techniques.
The aim is to help someone feel more able to cope, make decisions, and manage day-to-day stresses without judgement.
What Vanessa works with
How Vanessa works
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Listed by Vanessa among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-Centred Therapy is about being heard and steering sessions around what matters to the person. Online meetings allow this listening focus to continue whether someone prefers video, phone or messaging. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify thinking patterns that worsen mood and teaches practical strategies to change them; it works well for anxiety, low mood and stress and can be practised through worksheets or short exercises between sessions. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, known as DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance; those skills can be taught and rehearsed in remote sessions just as in person.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss needs, goals and personal preferences and agree together which methods to try. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted if something does not fit.
Online therapy brings practical benefits. Video calls make it possible to speak face to face without travel. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a quieter setting is needed. Live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins, short updates or when typing feels more comfortable. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
