About Pippa
Pippa Vlietstra draws on somatic approaches to help people bring awareness to what their body is telling them. She combines body-based techniques with talking therapy to support regulation, soothe anxiety, and address relationship and attachment concerns. Pippa holds NCPS credentials and has practised for three years in the United Kingdom.
Pippa offers straightforward, compassionate sessions. She aims to create a calm space where people can notice patterns in their body and behaviour.
Background and approach
That can help with stress, panic, sleep problems, anger and low mood. Her work often links present difficulties to past experiences of attachment and abandonment. She helps people understand how early connections influence current relationships and intimacy.
Conversations are grounded in everyday language so ideas are easy to use at home. Pippa uses client-centred skills to follow each person’s pace and priorities. Trauma-focused ideas are used when past events still cause distress.
The emphasis is practical - learning simple skills that can be used between sessions. Sessions can address a wide range of concerns from addictions, grief and career stress to eating and body-image worries. She also supports those managing family problems, parenting strain, and the emotional effects of separation.
People work with Pippa by choosing the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, chat or messaging, and are arranged according to her availability.
How somatic and attachment-led work fits online
Somatic Therapy helps people notice sensations in the body and use those signals to reduce tension and overwhelm. It can be helpful for anxiety, sleep problems, anger and for managing physical reactions to stress.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and intimacy. This approach supports understanding patterns such as abandonment fears, communication struggles and commitment concerns.
Pippa uses client-centred principles to keep the work paced to the individual. Together the therapist and client decide which methods feel most helpful, and adapt them as needs and goals change.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or messaging offers practical flexibility. It makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments, and allows people to use tools in their own environment. Sessions can combine real-time conversations with short written check-ins to support progress between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English