Vanessa East, BACP

Vanessa East is a counsellor who helps people with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship worries, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, eating and body-image concerns, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar challenges, ADHD and life changes. Vanessa practises in the United Kingdom and works in English. Vanessa adapts her approach to each person. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape adult patterns. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills for emotional regulation. Sessions can also include more reflective work about meaning and values from existential therapy. Her style is practical and collaborative. She aims to be direct but compassionate, helping people notice patterns and try small experiments between sessions. Vanessa also brings somatic awareness into the room when helpful so the body as well as thoughts can be part of change. Vanessa has three years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her background includes work across agencies and with a broad spread of issues such as chronic pain, grief, personality concerns and trauma. If you are thinking about therapy, she asks people to consider what they want to change or understand. That helps shape whether work focuses on symptom relief or on exploring early experiences and meaning.

How Vanessa's approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns that started in early relationships and shows how those patterns affect current connections and trust. Online sessions can use this approach to map relational habits and practise new ways of engaging with others. Client-centred therapy centres the person and their experience, offering a non-judgemental space to talk things through. In remote sessions this can help people feel heard and steer the pace and focus of therapy themselves. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioural experiments to test new ideas. It is suited to problems like anxiety, low mood and many types of stress and can include between-session tasks that fit into everyday life. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and help you try out methods that match them. That makes therapy a shared process rather than a fixed set of techniques. Please confirm the specific online session formats available before booking, as the profile does not list them. Many people find online work helps fit therapy around daily life, for example by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a busy day, or enabling sessions when leaving home would be difficult. These practical benefits can make it easier to keep up with regular appointments and apply what is learned between sessions.