Victoria Olanipekun
Practical, relationship-focused therapy for emotional distress
About Victoria
Victoria Olanipekun offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low mood. She speaks plainly and helps people break problems into manageable steps. Victoria aims to make the first contacts straightforward so someone unsure about therapy can take a small step forward.
She uses approaches that focus on how relationships and past hurts shape current feelings. Conversations centre on what matters to each person and on building skills to cope day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions combine reflective talk with practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour. Victoria holds accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often shortened to BACP. She has four years of clinical experience working in the United Kingdom and supports people who want to address trauma, abuse, or persistent worry.
People bring a wide range of concerns, from anger and grief to issues around body image, chronic illness, addiction, and family of origin problems. Victoria adapts her work to each person’s needs, helping them identify priorities and realistic steps forward. Her style is collaborative and steady.
She listens carefully, offers clear explanations, and uses simple exercises drawn from cognitive and mindfulness-based methods. The aim is to increase emotional awareness, reduce distressing symptoms, and build better ways of coping. Practical arrangements include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging.
International clients may be supported in English, with scheduling organised to fit each person’s situation.
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How Victoria works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online therapy and everyday life
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. In sessions this often means mapping patterns in close relationships and practising new ways of responding to distress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours through clear, practical techniques such as thought records and behavioural experiments. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and many everyday difficulties. Mindfulness-based methods teach attention and breathing practices that help reduce rumination and bring a calmer focus to stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust the plan as progress is made, so the work feels collaborative and realistic.
Online sessions give a lot of practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can provide shorter check-ins and easier scheduling. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care across time zones and different routines while still using the chosen therapeutic approaches in a way that suits the client.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English