Vanessa Anthony, BACP, NCPS

Vanessa Anthony is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who aims to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship difficulties. She presents herself as someone who listens and supports each person to make sense of their situation. Vanessa names the client as the expert in their own story and focuses on building from existing strengths.

She uses a mix of person-centred work and cognitive behavioural approaches in sessions. That means conversations begin with the client’s priorities and move towards practical ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused ideas when they suit a person’s goals.

Vanessa has nine years of experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. BACP refers to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and NCPS is the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society. These are the qualifications she lists on her profile.

In practice she offers calm, direct conversation and clear steps to try between sessions. She describes helping people from different cultures, faiths and neurodivergent backgrounds. Practical issues she works with include parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, addiction, chronic illness and recovery from trauma and abuse.

She invites people who are ready to make changes to take a first step and says she will support them through the early stages of that work. The emphasis is on collaboration, small steps and using what already works for the person.

How Vanessa’s approaches translate to online counselling

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, reflection and building a trusting relationship, so online conversations aim to give the same calm space to talk and be heard. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and uses simple tasks and experiments between sessions to shift patterns. Trauma-Focused Therapy pays attention to the impact of painful events and uses careful pacing and grounding techniques to help someone feel steadier.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as things improve or new challenges arise.

The profile does not specify which online formats are offered, so please confirm available session types before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, save travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also mean using written exercises, audio-guided mindfulness or brief behavioural tasks between sessions to build progress.