Vanessa Teixeira
Practical, compassionate counselling for emotional strain
About Vanessa
Vanessa Teixeira works with people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and low self-esteem. She communicates in English and Portuguese and brings six years of experience to her counselling practice in the United Kingdom. Vanessa aims to create a respectful, sensitive space for people to talk about difficult issues.
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She adapts sessions to each person, tailoring conversation and interventions to match their situation.
Background and approach
Vanessa uses a mix of methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people build skills and make clearer choices. Vanessa has supported people facing grief, relationship strain and the emotional aftermath of abuse. She also helps with challenges linked to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image and addictions.
Her work covers issues such as avoidance, attachment difficulties and codependency in ways that focus on present needs and manageable steps forward. Sessions can address emotional pressure, motivation and confidence. Vanessa helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding.
She encourages small, concrete changes that fit into everyday life. Her registration appears as NCPS. Vanessa asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and then to arrange sessions that suit their schedule.
Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat and messaging.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without being led by them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, low mood and motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and practising practical skills to change them, often used for anxiety, depression and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of relating and feeling that began earlier in life and helps people try new ways of connecting and regulating emotion.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and day-to-day constraints and then choose methods together. This collaborative process aims to match tools to what feels most useful for the person's situation.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options let people make therapy fit around work, travel and caregiving commitments while continuing a steady course of support.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
