Vanessa East, BACP

Vanessa East is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, trauma and life changes. She works with those struggling with self-esteem, addiction, parenting challenges, ADHD and intimacy issues. Vanessa offers a direct and compassionate approach to support people through difficult moments, including midlife transitions. She adapts her work to what each person brings to the room. Sessions can focus on a present difficulty or look back to earlier life stages to understand how past experiences shape current reactions. Vanessa uses a mix of talking, body-focused work and reflective exercises to help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping. Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships affect wellbeing. Cognitive approaches are used to identify and reframe unhelpful thinking. She also integrates client-centred listening, existential questions about meaning, and strategies from dialectical behaviour work when emotional regulation is needed. Vanessa holds a BACP credential, and she has three years of experience working in therapy settings. She has worked with a wide range of issues including complex grief, trauma, personality-related difficulties and chronic health concerns. Her background includes group facilitation and psychoeducation alongside one-to-one work. People who choose her often want practical tools as well as space to reflect. Vanessa aims to be creative and intuitive in sessions, helping clients build resilience, notice bodily signals and practice new responses to long-standing problems.

How Vanessa's approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour. Online sessions can use this approach to map patterns in relationships, notice emotional triggers and practise new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours. In online sessions CBT is often practical and task-oriented, using short exercises and homework to build new routines. Client-centred therapy emphasises empathic listening and the client's own pace; it provides a space to be heard and to explore feelings without pressure.

The choice of approach is part of the work together. Vanessa will collaborate with each person to decide what methods best match their needs, goals and preferences. That may mean combining approaches over time, trying skills-based tools first, or moving into deeper exploration as trust develops.

The original profile does not specify which remote formats are available, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make sessions easier to fit around daily life, cut travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it simpler to continue therapy when schedules change or a person is living abroad. Registered or accredited professionals can help adapt exercises and somatic awareness to an online setting so the work remains practical and relevant.