Vanessa Gordon , BACP

Vanessa Gordon is an integrative therapeutic counsellor who combines person-centred, psychodynamic and solution-focused ideas to support people working through past experiences, current challenges and relationship patterns. She brings a practical focus to emotional healing while attending to how clients make sense of themselves and relate to others. Vanessa holds the BACP credential - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and has five years of therapeutic experience.

Vanessa also trains and uses several complementary practices alongside talking therapies. She is a Reiki II practitioner, offering distance and hands-on energy work intended to promote relaxation and a sense of balance. She teaches mindfulness, emotional freedom techniques (EFT), Ho’oponopono practices and meditation to help clients notice and shift unhelpful beliefs across emotional, physical, spiritual and mental aspects of experience. She is a trained Mental Health First Aid facilitator.

Her clinical experience covers adults with mild, moderate and severe mental health concerns, including attachment difficulties, co-dependency, relationship struggles, challenges with self-validation and identity, trauma, abuse and addictions. Vanessa provides psychoeducation on self-love and self-care and works in an integrative way to help people move toward greater wellbeing and more effective daily functioning.

Integrative therapeutic approaches for online support

Vanessa uses person-centred therapy to create a warm, non-judgmental space where the client’s own goals and inner resources guide the pace of work; this approach is helpful for building self-esteem, improving relationships and strengthening emotional insight. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to explore how past experiences and unconscious patterns influence present behaviour and close relationships, which can be useful when addressing long-standing difficulties such as attachment issues and identity concerns. Solution-focused therapy complements these approaches by concentrating on practical steps and achievable goals, helping clients identify strengths and small changes that lead to noticeable improvement.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Vanessa works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences, and she adapts the work over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy sessions may be delivered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments. Working with licensed professionals in these formats can increase accessibility, reduce travel time and allow consistent contact when in-person appointments are difficult, while still supporting meaningful personal change.