Vania Piludu
Calm, practical support for stress and trauma
About Vania
Vania Piludu helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, and relationship or intimacy challenges. She also supports clients coping with grief, career changes, parenting strain, sleeping or eating difficulties, and long-term health concerns. Vania works in English and Italian and practises from the United Kingdom.
She aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Sessions are delivered with calm, direct conversation and practical ideas.
Background and approach
Vania listens for what matters most and helps people set small, achievable goals between sessions. Her background includes over two decades working in mental health. She holds HCPC registration, which is shown as HCPC.
That registration is part of her professional record in the UK. Vania uses a blend of approaches so therapy fits each person. She draws on acceptance and commitment approaches to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values.
Cognitive behavioural techniques help with problem-solving and changing unhelpful thinking. She also uses attachment-focused and client-centred ways of working to deepen understanding of important relationships. Sessions can include breathing and grounding skills, practical behaviour changes, and conversations about difficult past experiences.
Vania aims to be direct and warm in session, helping people turn ideas into small changes that make day-to-day life easier. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions that suit their schedule. The process is presented in straightforward steps so the focus stays on what people want to change.
What Vania works with
How Vania works
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Listed by Vania among the ways they work.
Listed by Vania among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on small actions that reflect their values and improve daily life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that cause distress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current connections and helps people understand and adjust their ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about different methods and decide together which fits a person’s goals, preferences and current needs. Plans can be adjusted as therapy progresses so methods stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy with Vania uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let therapy feel closer to face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments, and allow registered or accredited professionals to support people across different locations.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Registered with
- HCPC
- Languages
- English, Italian
