Counsellor profile
Vanessa East, BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - relationships and codependency
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- Credentials
- BACP
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom / 396567
- Experience
- 3 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Anxiety and stress
- Attachment work
- Hypnotherapy techniques
About Vanessa
Vanessa East is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years' experience. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, intimacy concerns, eating issues, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar, ADHD and codependency among other areas.
She writes plainly with clients about what is happening now and how early experiences may still shape present choices. Sessions can focus on practical skills or on understanding patterns formed in childhood. Vanessa adapts her approach depending on what a person brings into the room.
Her work draws on attachment-based thinking, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural tools and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy and existential approaches. She also brings somatic awareness and hypnotherapy techniques when these fit the client's goals. That means some sessions may involve talking and thinking, and others may include exercises for the body or guided relaxation.
Vanessa describes the process as collaborative. She helps people notice where they keep putting others first, have trouble saying no, or get stuck around someone else's moods or crises. She supports people who want clearer boundaries, steadier self-worth, or different responses to addiction and grief.
She has experience across community and agency settings and works with a broad range of concerns including attachment issues, abandonment, body image, blended family stress, chronic illness and BDSM and kink related topics. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
Practical arrangements such as session format and fees vary with location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. Prospective clients are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How sessions work
How her approaches work for online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice how they relate to others now. It can be useful for people who struggle with clinginess, abandonment fears or repeating old relationship scripts.Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and supporting a person to find their own answers. It aims to build clearer self-understanding and can help with low self-esteem and decision-making.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers practical steps to change thoughts and behaviours that maintain anxiety or compulsive people-pleasing. It often includes simple exercises to try between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide what feels most helpful, adjusting methods as goals and preferences become clearer.
Details about how sessions are run online were not specified in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into daily life, for example by reducing travel, allowing shorter check-ins during a busy day, or removing the need to be on camera for every session. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists practising these approaches, can adapt exercises, breathing work and CBT tasks to an online setting to support steady progress.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Does she help with people-pleasing and boundary issues?
Yes. She works with patterns like putting others first and difficulty saying no, and helps people develop clearer boundaries.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She blends client-centred listening with attachment-based ideas and cognitive tools, adapting methods to what a person brings to sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has three years' experience working in community and agency settings with a wide range of issues.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live abroad?
Sessions are offered to international clients and are conducted in English.
Which session formats are available?
Session formats were not specified in the biography; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Fees vary with location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin the process?
Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.