Virginie Sussest
Compassionate counsellor focused on practical support
About Virginie
Virginie Sussest is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 11 years of professional experience. She offers a calm, respectful approach and focuses on practical support for people facing emotional difficulties. Virginie helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and anger.
She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, grief and loss, addictions and trauma. Her work includes concerns around intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Her background includes more than a decade of work with bereavement services, where she supported people through grief and mourning. That experience informs how she listens and how she holds sensitive conversations about loss and change. She aims to adapt the pace and style of sessions to each person’s needs.
In sessions she draws on approaches such as attachment-based thinking, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques, psychodynamic reflection and solution-focused methods. These approaches help with understanding patterns, managing distressing thoughts, and finding practical steps forward. Virginie speaks English, French and Italian and is comfortable using those languages in sessions.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process and works with each person to set realistic goals and try practical coping strategies. She encourages people to take small steps towards feeling better and to shape therapy around what matters most to them.
What Virginie works with
How Virginie works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Virginie uses client-centred practice to prioritise the person in front of her. That approach means listening carefully, following the person’s lead and tailoring sessions to what feels most important. It suits people who want a reflective, empathetic space to talk about feelings and life events.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT can be useful for managing anxiety, depression and practical day-to-day problems when someone wants structured techniques and short-term goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions can be handy when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options offer flexibility and make it simpler to keep continuity of care around work, travel or family commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- 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
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- HIV / AIDS
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- 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
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, French, Italian
