Victoria Rose
Gentle, practical support for overwhelmed adults
About Victoria
Victoria Rose specialises in helping adults who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. She writes simply and directly, and aims to make the first steps easier for people who are worried or unsure about reaching out. Victoria's tone is calm and encouraging, and she responds to each person as an individual with their own story.
She uses practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioural therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and solution-focused work.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on spotting unhelpful thought patterns, building small habits that change day-to-day life, and finding values that guide decisions. Victoria also draws on client-centred principles to make sessions feel less directive and more like a conversation. Before moving into counselling she worked in the media industry and volunteered with a children and young person’s mental health charity.
Those experiences influence how she structures sessions and how she explains ideas. She also has lived experience of ADHD and includes that perspective when relevant. Victoria holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
She has around five years of experience in practice and works with adult clients in the United Kingdom. Sessions may address issues such as parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, grief, sleep problems and work-related pressures. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person.
Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress while building skills people can use after therapy ends. Practical tools, short exercises and clear discussion are common features of her work.
What Victoria works with
How Victoria works
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Listed by Victoria among the ways they work.
Listed by Victoria among the ways they work.
Listed by Victoria among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thinking and choose actions that match their values. It often suits issues like anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by shifting the focus from trying to control thoughts to making meaningful choices.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It uses practical exercises and short tasks between sessions to reduce symptoms such as low mood, panic or poor sleep and to build new patterns that fit daily life.
Victoria aims to work collaboratively when choosing an approach. She will discuss goals, try simple techniques and adapt methods so they match what a person needs and prefers. Figuring out the right mix of approaches is part of the early sessions rather than something fixed in advance.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a quicker check-in, and live chat or text sessions suit short updates or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, childcare or other commitments and let people try different formats to see what helps most.
| 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
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
