Vanessa Gordon, BACP

Vanessa Gordon is a BACP-registered counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. She works with individuals facing relationship and family difficulties, addiction, trauma, grief and a range of emotional struggles. Her style is practical and person-focused, aimed at making everyday life more manageable.

Vanessa draws on a blend of approaches so therapy can address past patterns, present coping and how people relate to others. She uses person-centred listening to create space for clients to be heard. She also integrates psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviours.

Sessions can include solution-focused steps to set small, realistic goals. Vanessa also uses narrative techniques to help people reframe unhelpful stories about themselves. She teaches grounding and mindfulness exercises alongside practical tools for stress and emotion management.

Her background includes five years of therapeutic practice and work with adults facing mild to severe mental health challenges. She has experience supporting people with attachment and co-dependency issues, identity and self-concept concerns, trauma, abuse, violence and addictive behaviours.

Clients can expect a collaborative, flexible approach that mixes talking with practical skills work and psychoeducation on self-care and self-compassion. Vanessa aims to help people find more balance and clearer ways of moving forward in their day-to-day lives.

Approaches that suit online counselling

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The counsellor reflects what they hear and helps the client find their own answers, which can be useful for anxiety, low self-esteem and life decisions.

Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and the world. Rewriting unhelpful narratives can reduce shame and open up new ways of relating after trauma or relationship problems.

Psychodynamic ideas help identify patterns that began in earlier relationships and still affect current choices. This approach can be helpful for people who want to understand recurring difficulties or deep-rooted emotional responses.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Vanessa will work with each person to decide which combination of methods fits their needs and goals. She encourages people to try practical steps while also exploring underlying patterns when useful.

If you are interested in online work, confirm the available session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use therapeutic tools such as mindfulness exercises and narrative work in the moment, so therapy can be more directly applied to daily routines.