Vanessa East, BACP
Compassionate counsellor for complex life challenges
Details
| Name | Vanessa East |
|---|---|
| Credentials | BACP |
| Based in | United Kingdom |
| Registered with | BACP |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 3 |
About Vanessa
Vanessa East is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions and issues with intimacy. She also helps with eating and body-image concerns, parenting pressures, anger, low self-esteem, career questions and neurodiversity-related challenges such as ADHD. Vanessa holds BACP registration and brings three years of counselling experience to her practice.
Vanessa adapts her work to what each person brings to the room.
Background and approach
She uses ideas from Narrative Therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. She also draws on attachment-based thinking and client-centred ways of working to make sessions collaborative and person-focused. Her style mixes talking work with practical exercises.
Sessions can include cognitive techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, DBT-informed skills for managing strong emotions, and short hypnotherapy exercises where appropriate. Vanessa aims to connect with the whole person - thoughts, feelings and bodily experience - to find what helps most in everyday life.
When longer patterns are in focus, Vanessa may look at early experiences and attachment histories to understand present relationships and responses. For more immediate problems she offers concrete tools for coping, grounding and emotional regulation. She can also support people dealing with grief, chronic illness or complex trauma with pacing and stabilisation work.
Vanessa works online with people in the UK and internationally. Sessions are offered in English and are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time according to therapist availability.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Family conflicts among the things Vanessa works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Addictions
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Hypnotherapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Somatic Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Systemic Therapy: Listed by Vanessa among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Vanessa directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Vanessa directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Vanessa draws on Narrative Therapy to help people rewrite unhelpful life stories and separate problems from identity. That approach can be useful for issues like low self-esteem, shame, relationship patterns and recovery from trauma.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early relationships shape present reactions. That work can help with relationship difficulties, abandonment fears and patterns of emotional reactivity. In addition, she employs Client-Centred Therapy principles to keep sessions collaborative and focused on the person's priorities, allowing clients to set the pace and topics.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Vanessa will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods to fit each person's needs. The process is collaborative and reviewed as therapy progresses so plans can change if something else would help more.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when discussing personal history or practicing skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want ongoing brief support, or need to fit counselling into a busy day. Registered professionals, including therapists who use these methods, can tailor formats to what works best for each person.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Vanessa help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions and intimacy-related issues. Other areas include eating and body image, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career matters and ADHD-related challenges.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Vanessa works in a collaborative, person-focused way that combines talking with practical exercises. She tailors each session to the individual's needs and may use storytelling, attachment ideas and skills work.
What experience does she have?
She has three years of counselling experience and has worked with a range of issues including anxiety, grief, trauma and personality-related difficulties.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Vanessa is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP, and practises from the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients as well as those in the UK. All work is carried out in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How are sessions paid for?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Vanessa?
Start by clicking the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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