Victoria (Vix) Benson
Supportive counsellor helping people find answers
About Victoria
Victoria (Vix) Benson is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She has four years of experience supporting people who are dealing with anxiety, stress and depression. Vix takes a client-led approach and treats the person sitting opposite her as the expert in their own life.
She focuses on helping people notice the patterns in their thinking, feeling and behaviour. Sessions often use reflection, open observations and gentle challenge to make things clearer.
Background and approach
Vix does not give direct advice; instead she helps people find their own answers and make choices about change. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including addictions, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma and eating and sleeping problems. She also supports people with ADHD, self-esteem issues and LGBTQ matters.
Additional areas of focus include caregiver stress, codependency, blended family issues and family of origin problems. Vix draws on several therapeutic approaches to shape sessions, including client-centred ways of working and psychodynamic ideas. She also uses elements from relationship-focused methods when relevant.
Conversations are tailored to each person’s goals and pace. People who come to Vix can expect a respectful, calm space to talk things through. The aim is to build clarity and practical steps that fit everyday life.
The first contact involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session by the Start Therapy button.
What Victoria works with
How Victoria works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and supports them in discovering their own solutions for issues like anxiety, low mood and self-esteem.Psychodynamic ideas look at patterns from past experience and how they show up now. This can help people make sense of recurring problems in relationships and emotion regulation.
Relationship-focused methods such as the Gottman Method and Imago ideas concentrate on communication and connection between partners. They offer tools for improving interaction and resolving repeated conflicts when relationship difficulties are part of the picture.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adapt methods to suit those needs. This collaborative stance means work can shift as new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when visual contact helps. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing contact between sessions or a way to communicate without being on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
