Vanessa East
Reflective counsellor for complex life challenges
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About Vanessa
Vanessa East works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, intimacy concerns, eating issues and parenting pressures. She also helps with anger, self-esteem, career changes, bipolar management, ADHD and the day-to-day of coping with life transitions. Vanessa is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation.
Vanessa adapts her approach to the person who turns up in the room. She combines talking work with attention to the body and the soul, using cognitive tools alongside somatic methods when helpful.
Background and approach
Sessions may focus on immediate symptom relief or on tracing patterns that began in early life. Her background includes integrative hypno-psychotherapy and integrative therapeutic counselling training. She draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of dialectical and existential thinking.
This mix lets her work practically with thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Vanessa has three years of professional experience and has worked with people affected by trauma, chronic pain, codependency and complex bereavement. She mentions experience across cultural and trauma-informed contexts and uses body-based approaches like somatic and polyvagal-informed techniques when appropriate.
People who choose Vanessa often look for a counsellor who meets them with empathy and practical tools. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and can schedule sessions according to availability. International clients may be accepted, and sessions are conducted in English.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 3
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 396567
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Vanessa's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Vanessa works with
Everything Vanessa lists, in their own terms.
- 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 Vanessa lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Vanessa works online
Finding the right approach is often a process. Vanessa aims to work collaboratively, discussing goals and preferences and then trying methods that fit the person and the problem. That means adjusting techniques over time and combining approaches where that helps progress.
If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the available formats before booking because they are not specified in the biography. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around busy lives, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to include practical exercises between meetings and to continue work when circumstances change. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists with the approaches described above, can help you decide which format and methods will suit your situation.
Questions and answers
What concerns does Vanessa support?
She supports a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions and intimacy-related difficulties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Vanessa adapts to each person, combining talking therapy with somatic and reflective work to address thoughts, feelings and bodily responses.
What experience does she have working with trauma and complex issues?
She has three years of professional experience and has worked with trauma, chronic pain, codependency and complex bereavement in trauma-informed and culturally responsive settings.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Vanessa holds BACP accreditation and practices in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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