About Vanessa
Vanessa East is a counsellor who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and grief. She also supports people dealing with addiction, intimacy concerns, eating and body image issues, anger and low self-esteem. Vanessa works in a direct, compassionate way and aims to make talking about hard things feel manageable.
She adapts her approach to what each person brings to sessions. That might mean focusing on practical skills for daily life or attending to how the body holds stress using somatic methods.
Background and approach
She also incorporates attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. Vanessa trained in several integrative therapies and holds an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Hypno-Psychotherapy and a Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Sessions may include cognitive work to change unhelpful thinking, exercises to manage strong emotions, and gentle body-based practices to ease tension. She describes the process as creative and intuitive, aiming to help people bring their full selves into therapy. Her background includes work with agencies on issues such as trauma, loss, chronic pain and codependency.
Vanessa combines that practical experience with approaches that address mind, body and relational patterns to support recovery and clearer day-to-day coping.
Doing somatic and relational work online
Vanessa uses a mix of Somatic Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred methods to help people feel steadier. Somatic Therapy focuses on how the body stores stress and offers gentle practices to release tension and build awareness. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change repeated cycles in close relationships. Client-Centred Therapy prioritises the person in front of the therapist, offering acceptance and support so the client can lead the pace and topics of work.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist discusses goals, preferences and what feels safe, then adapts methods as therapy progresses. This collaborative stance helps ensure the work matches each person’s needs and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video allows for face-to-face conversation and body awareness work, phone sessions suit times when video is not possible, and chat or messaging can be useful for short check-ins or paced reflection. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and access support from different places.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior 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
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English