Victoria Swart
Gentle, practical therapy for everyday challenges
About Victoria
Victoria Swart is a counsellor with seven years of experience who uses a mix of person-centred and evidence-based approaches. She asks straightforward questions and listens carefully. Her aim is to help people feel less overwhelmed and more able to manage day-to-day pressures.
She offers practical ways to cope with stress, anxiety, low mood, grief and trauma. Sessions can also focus on self-esteem, relationship or intimacy concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, and problems linked to addiction or major life changes.
Background and approach
Victoria supports people navigating identity issues and LGBT concerns as part of her practice. Her background includes work in independent practice and voluntary roles with a suicide prevention charity. She also has experience offering life coaching and supporting people through bereavement and transitions.
Her NCPS credential is shown as a professional qualification. In sessions she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches alongside a client-centred attitude. That means she balances practical techniques with attention to how clients relate to themselves and others.
The focus is on small, manageable steps that match a person’s goals. Victoria works with adults on issues ranging from chronic pain and caregiver stress to career pressure and body image. She accepts international clients and runs appointments online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule an initial consultation.
What Victoria works with
How Victoria works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It uses small, values-based actions to rebuild a life that matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and is useful for anxiety, depression and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Victoria will discuss what matters to the individual and suggest techniques that match their goals and preferences. The choice is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face time for deeper conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving and travel, and allow people to connect from different countries with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
