Vanessa East

• Stress and anxiety
• Attachment issues
• CBT and DBT methods

About Vanessa

Vanessa East works on stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and a wide range of related issues using an integrative, client-centred approach. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has three years' experience in practice.

Vanessa offers practical talking therapy that draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive approaches. She uses client-centred methods to keep sessions focused on what matters now. Sessions may also include techniques that attend to the body and emotional regulation when relevant.

Her work covers common daily pressures as well as complex problems. This includes low self-esteem, anger, intimacy and sexual culture concerns, eating and body-image issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, and difficulties arising from neurodiversity such as autism or ADHD. She also lists experience with trauma, abandonment issues and personality-related patterns.

In sessions Vanessa may work on immediate coping, or look back to early development to understand current patterns. She draws on CBT and DBT approaches for managing thoughts and emotions, and attachment-based thinking to explore relationships and trust. The aim is to help people notice patterns, practise different responses and build practical skills for daily life.

She works in English and accepts international clients. Session costs vary by location and are provided via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, select the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How her approaches translate to online counselling

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can explore trust and closeness, and help people notice how they relate to others now. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on thoughts and behaviours. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking and practise different responses in day-to-day life. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance, which can be practised between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and will adapt methods together with the client. This collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasise thinking-based techniques, emotional skills, or attachment-focused exploration.

The biography does not list explicit session formats, so please confirm the available options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions around work or family commitments, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also mean sessions where exercises or worksheets are shared during the appointment to support learning between meetings.

Topics Vanessa lists

• Stress and 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 and 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 and non-monogamous relationships
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Process addictions
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexual dysfunction
• Sexuality
• Quitting smoking or vaping
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Somatization
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Existential Therapy
• Hypnotherapy
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Narrative Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Somatic Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy
• Internal Family Systems
• Systemic Therapy

Questions about Vanessa

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety and stress are listed among the main concerns she supports.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She uses an integrative client-centred style that draws on attachment-based work, cognitive behaviour approaches and dialectical behaviour ideas.

What experience does she have?

She has three years' experience working with a range of issues including trauma, grief, addictions and relationship problems.

Is she a registered counsellor in the UK?

She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Can I see her if I live outside the UK?

Yes. She accepts international clients and works in English.

What session formats are available?

The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.

How much do sessions cost?

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

How do I get started?

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