Victoria Swart

• ACT methods
• CBT techniques
• Attachment work

About Victoria

Victoria Swart works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and low self-esteem using a practical, person-focused approach. She is registered with NCPS and has seven years' experience working with people on a range of concerns. Sessions aim to help people talk through immediate problems and build clearer ways of coping.

Victoria draws on several approaches to shape sessions, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Attachment-Based work. She combines these to focus on thoughts, feelings and behaviour. This helps when people are managing mood problems, relationships, or life changes.

Her caseload covers a wide set of issues. These include depression, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, intimacy-related issues, bipolar and coping with major life transitions. She also works with concerns around parenting, career stress, anger and communication problems.

Additional areas of focus include abandonment, adoption and foster care, ageing and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, codependency and caregiver stress. Victoria also supports people dealing with chronic illness, cancer and body image difficulties.

She uses client-centred and emotionally-focused ideas to help people be heard and to explore what matters to them. Practical strategies from CBT and mindfulness-style work are offered when useful. People can expect a collaborative process that sets clear aims and reviews progress over time.

Therapeutic approaches used in online counselling

Victoria frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her work. ACT helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action despite difficult thoughts or feelings, which can be useful for stress, anxiety and coping with life changes. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical strategies for mood, worry and sleep problems.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. This approach can be helpful for intimacy issues, relationship patterns and attachment-related concerns. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with the client to agree aims, try methods and adjust what is needed as therapy progresses.

If you prefer to work online, check the session formats available before booking as these are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed and remove travel time. Many people find that talking remotely helps them maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family and other commitments.

Topics Victoria lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• Grief
• Self-esteem
• Depression
• Addictions
• LGBT
• Relationship issues
• Family conflicts
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Coping with life changes
• Abandonment
• Adoption and foster care
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Antisocial personality
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Cancer
• 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
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Fatherhood issues
• Fertility issues
• First responder issues
• Forgiveness
• Gender dysphoria
• Guilt and shame
• Hearing impaired
• Hoarding
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Immigration issues
• Impulsivity
• Infidelity
• Intellectual disability
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis
• Veteran and armed forces issues
• 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
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• 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
• Trichotillomania
• Visually impaired
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Narrative Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Somatic Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy

Questions about Victoria

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety is listed among her main areas of work and she uses CBT and mindfulness approaches to help manage symptoms.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based and Client-Centred approaches tailored to each person.

How much experience does she have?

She has seven years of experience working with a range of concerns including trauma, depression and relationship issues.

Where is she based and registered?

She practises in the United Kingdom and is registered with NCPS.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can I work with her from another country?

She accepts international clients, so people outside the UK may be able to arrange sessions.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I get started?

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