Victoria "Vicki" Readings
Warm counsellor combining talk and creative techniques
About Victoria
Victoria "Vicki" Readings is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and has five years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and life transitions. Vicki aims to create a calm, practical space where people can talk and find clearer ways forward.
Her approach combines talking therapy with creative methods. She uses person-centred conversations alongside drawing, metaphor work and phototherapy to help people express what is hard to put into words.
Background and approach
Sessions are adapted to the individual and paced to suit each person. Vicki also brings holistic practices into her work. She draws on yoga techniques, laughter yoga and mindfulness to offer tools for managing tension and building everyday coping skills.
These methods are introduced gently and used alongside talking rather than replacing it. Her clinical interests include parenting pressures, family conflict, communication problems, divorce and separation, isolation and self-esteem. She also supports people working through pregnancy and childbirth concerns, life purpose questions and women's issues.
Vicki focuses on helping people develop awareness and practical strategies they can use between sessions. People who choose Vicki tend to want a warm, adaptable counsellor who mixes conversation with creative exercises. She encourages small, achievable steps and works collaboratively to set goals and monitor progress.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and Vicki offers steady support for that process.
What Victoria works with
Sessions & fees
Evidence-informed approaches for online work
Vicki draws on person-centred talking and creative expressive techniques to help people make sense of difficult feelings. Person-centred work focuses on listening, reflecting and helping someone find their own solutions, which suits stress, anxiety and self-esteem concerns. Creative expressive methods use drawing, metaphors and phototherapy to open up communication when words feel hard to find and to help process family and life-change issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Vicki will discuss what feels most helpful and try different methods so the work fits your needs and goals. She works with you to set practical aims and checks in on progress as therapy continues.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for fuller conversations and visual work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and messaging lets you share thoughts between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and access support from wherever they are in the United Kingdom.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
