About Victoria
Victoria Swart is a somatic-informed counsellor who blends body-aware work with evidence-based talking therapies. She holds NCPS accreditation and brings seven years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. Victoria aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where practical changes can begin.
Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. Sessions often combine gentle attention to bodily sensations with cognitive and acceptance-based techniques. This helps people notice how stress shows up in the body and learn ways to respond rather than react.
Background and approach
Victoria works with a wide range of concerns including grief, self-esteem, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, and career stress. She also has experience with neurodiversity, attachment difficulties, chronic illness and caregiver strain. Conversations focus on what is most pressing for the individual and on small, achievable steps.
In practice she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, attachment-based ideas and client-centred listening alongside somatic awareness. Sessions are paced to suit each person and to build skills for coping with change and emotional pain. Victoria offers flexible online formats and supports international clients.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and an initial scheduling step help connect people to a suitable plan for ongoing work.
How somatic and acceptance approaches work online
Somatic-informed work helps people tune into physical sensations and notice how emotions appear in the body. It can support those with trauma, stress, chronic pain or anxiety to recognise tension patterns and learn gentle ways to release or regulate them.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It helps with rumination, avoidance and difficulties adjusting to life changes by building psychological flexibility.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in close relationships and how they shape current reactions. This approach can be useful for people struggling with trust, communication or repeated relationship difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to test what helps most, adapting methods to the person’s goals and preferences rather than insisting on a single model.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health needs, and they allow continued support across locations for international clients.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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 counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English