Vanessa East, BACP
3 years in practice
Vanessa East is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma, grief and many other life challenges.
License and registration
- BACP
- 396567 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 3
- Languages
- English
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About Vanessa
Vanessa East is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma, grief and many other life challenges. She works with issues such as addictions, intimacy concerns, eating problems, parenting strain, low self-esteem and coping with major life changes. Vanessa brings a direct, empathetic presence to sessions and aims to make it easier to talk about what’s hard.
She uses a blend of approaches shaped around each person’s needs.
Background and approach
That may mean talking through thoughts and behaviours, paying attention to how the body holds stress, or exploring early relationships that still influence day-to-day life. Existential themes - questions about meaning, choice and values - can also be part of the work when people feel a loss of direction. Vanessa adapts her style so sessions feel practical and relevant.
Some people focus on short-term coping skills, while others look deeper at patterns that repeat across relationships. She combines cognitive methods with attachment-based ideas and somatic awareness to offer different ways of understanding a problem. She holds BACP accreditation, and has practised for three years.
Sessions are available from the United Kingdom and she offers support in English, including to international clients. Therapy is delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging depending on what suits the person. Getting started involves selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a session according to availability.
The subscription for sessions can be cancelled at any time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Vanessa lists on their public professional profile, 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 names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Vanessa commonly draws on Existential Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centred ways of working. Existential Therapy focuses on questions about meaning, choice and responsibility, and can help when people feel stuck, directionless or overwhelmed by life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to early relationship experiences and how they shape connections today, which can help with trust, communication and intimacy issues.She aims to find the right mix of approaches together with each person. That means discussing goals, trying small changes, and adjusting methods if something does not feel helpful. The therapist treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process rather than a fixed starting point.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or life commitments while accessing the same therapeutic approaches used in person.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Vanessa support?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating issues, parenting strain, self-esteem and career questions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is adaptive and collaborative, combining practical skill-building with deeper exploration of relationship patterns and meaning. She shapes sessions around what the person needs that week.
What background and experience does she have?
She has three years of clinical practice and experience supporting people with anxiety, grief, trauma, personality-related difficulties and chronic stress among other concerns.
What credentials and region are listed?
She holds BACP accreditation and is based in the United Kingdom.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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