Counsellor profile
Virginie Sussest , BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - relationships and grief
Continue with VirginieWhere Virginie stands
- Credentials
- BACP
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom / 373578
- Experience
- 11 years
- Languages
- English, French, Italian
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Attachment-based work
- Client-centred approach
- CBT techniques
About Virginie
Virginie Sussest is a BACP-registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with 11 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain and grief. Her practice also covers addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem and codependency-related patterns.
Before moving into independent practice, she spent more than ten years with Cuse Bereavement Care supporting people through loss. That work shaped her approach to grief and long-term coping strategies. She brings a calm, steady manner and a focus on practical steps alongside listening.
Sessions tend to focus on helping people notice how they relate to others and how that affects wellbeing. She uses conversational methods that invite reflection and small experiments in daily life. Discussions often centre on setting boundaries, managing overwhelm, and handling difficult emotions like anger or shame.
Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and psychodynamic thinking. Solution-focused work is used when clients want concrete short-term changes. These methods are woven together depending on what each person needs.
Virginie offers therapy in English, French and Italian. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire before a first session. Costs vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. International clients are not currently accepted.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns such as clinging, avoidance or people-pleasing and how those patterns affect present relationships. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what a person says. It helps someone feel heard and clarifies priorities so they can make choices that suit their values. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with practical actions. It suits problems like anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties where clear skills and experiments can make a difference. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Virginie will talk with each person about goals and preferences and choose ways of working together. That decision is collaborative and can change as work progresses. Please confirm the current session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed in her biography. Many people find online sessions easier to fit around work or childcare, simpler when they want shorter check-ins, or preferable when travel is difficult. Registered or accredited professionals use online work to make therapy more workable around everyday life.Areas of focus
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Experience
11+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, French, Italian
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Can she help with people-pleasing and boundary issues?
Yes. She works with relationship patterns such as putting others first and trouble saying no.
What style of therapy does she use?
She blends attachment-based, client-centred and CBT methods, and also draws on psychodynamic and solution-focused ideas.
How long has she been practising?
She has 11 years of professional experience, including over ten years supporting people with bereavement work.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She works in the United Kingdom and is registered with the BACP.
Which languages can sessions be held in?
Sessions are offered in English, French and Italian.
Does she work with clients outside the UK?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are session fees handled?
Costs vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule 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.