Pippa Vlietstra

• Anxiety and stress
• Attachment-based work
• Somatic and trauma

About Pippa

Pippa Vlietstra helps people with anxiety, stress, relationship and family concerns using approaches that focus on attachment, the body, trauma, and client-centred listening. She is an accredited member of the NCPS and has three years' experience working with adults in the United Kingdom.

Pippa keeps sessions straightforward. She offers a calm listening style and works to understand how past relationships and early attachments affect current problems. She uses client-centred methods to help people feel heard and to clarify what they want to change.

She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how patterns in close relationships form and repeat. Somatic therapy techniques are used to help with nervous system regulation and bodily responses linked to anxiety or trauma. Trauma-focused work is available for people who need to address difficult past events in a paced way.

Pippa supports people with a wide range of concerns, including parenting strain, intimacy issues, eating and sleep problems, addiction, grief, anger, and career stress. She also works with attachment problems, abandonment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome related issues, and blended family challenges.

Her practical style includes helping people recognise patterns, try small changes, and practise new ways of communicating. Sessions concentrate on what the person wants to work on and on steps they can try between meetings.

How attachment and somatic approaches work online

Pippa combines attachment-based and somatic approaches with client-centred work to address relationship patterns and bodily responses. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current interactions and helps people notice and change repeating cycles. Somatic methods focus on bodily signs of stress and teach simple ways to calm the nervous system and reduce intense physical reactions.

She uses client-centred listening to prioritise what the person wants to address and to shape sessions around individual goals. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work; the counsellor and client decide together which methods suit the presenting concerns and day-to-day life.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm the current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow quieter check-ins during a lunch break or after work. They also allow for shorter interim contacts when needed and mean people do not have to rearrange as much to attend.

Topics Pippa lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Relationship issues
• Family conflicts
• Trauma and abuse
• Parenting issues
• Addictions
• Grief
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Anger management
• Career difficulties
• Depression
• Coping with life changes
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Eating and food-related issues
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Guilt and shame
• Infidelity
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis
• Narcissism
• Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
• Polyamory and non-monogamous relationships
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexuality
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Somatization
• Women's issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Somatic Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy

Questions about Pippa

What concerns does she help with?

Pippa works with adults on anxiety, stress, relationship and family concerns, plus issues such as parenting, addictions, grief, eating and sleep problems.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She uses client-centred counselling alongside attachment-based, somatic and trauma-focused approaches to address relationships, bodily responses and past events.

How much experience does she have?

Pippa has three years' experience working with adults in the United Kingdom.

What are her credentials and where does she practise?

She is an accredited member of the NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom.

Can I have sessions in other languages?

Sessions are offered in English.

Does she work with international clients?

She does not take clients outside the United Kingdom.

How much do sessions cost?

Fees vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin counselling with her?

Use the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.