Vanessa Gordon

Vanessa Gordon is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with five years' experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She also helps with issues around self-esteem, grief, addictions and life changes, including career uncertainty and questions about purpose.

Vanessa uses a mix of approaches that look at past experience, present patterns and how people relate to others. She draws on client-centred work to listen without directing, psychodynamic ideas to explore past influences, and solution-focused techniques to identify practical steps forward. She also uses narrative approaches to help people reframe their stories and Internal Family Systems to notice inner parts that influence behaviour.

Her practice includes work with trauma and abuse, intimacy and eating issues, LGBT concerns, and complex feelings like guilt, shame or emptiness. She discusses caregiving stress, chronic illness and body image in straightforward terms and supports people wrestling with control, dependency or dissociation.

Vanessa offers mindfulness, meditation, and brief tools such as EFT and Ho’oponopono as options for calming and reorienting. She mentions Reiki practice and relaxation techniques as part of her wider skills, and she teaches psychoeducation on self-love and practical self-care.

She aims to help people notice patterns, try small changes and build clearer choices about next steps. To start, clients are asked to complete a short questionnaire and schedule an initial session using the online booking flow.

Therapeutic approaches and online working

Vanessa often uses client-centred work which focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and identify their own priorities for change.

She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how earlier experiences shape current patterns and relationships. This can be useful when someone wants to understand recurring difficulties or strong emotional reactions.

Solution-focused methods are used to identify small, practical steps that can be tried between sessions. These techniques aim to build momentum by focusing on achievable changes rather than on complete overhauls.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with the client and agree a way forward based on needs, goals and preferences. That means sessions can shift to emphasise understanding, practical steps or narrative work as required.

The original profile does not list session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time so appointments can be scheduled around work or family commitments. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists, often find online sessions help maintain continuity when life is disrupted.