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Victoria Nelsen, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 6 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepression
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Victoria Nelsen offers calm, straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship problems. She helps people untangle patterns that keep them stuck and find clearer ways forward. Victoria writes simply and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
Victoria has six years' experience working with issues such as trauma and abuse, addiction, panic and social anxiety. She also supports people dealing with shame, loneliness, life changes, and difficulties with attachment or abandonment.
Background and approach
Her practice pays attention to how past hurts and present struggles connect. Her approach is based in client-centred therapy, where the person’s experience guides the work. She also draws on existential therapy to help people consider meaning, choices and how they want to live.
Sessions focus on what the person needs here and now, not on fitting them to a label. Victoria is a BACP counsellor, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works with people in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Practical matters such as cost vary by location and therapist availability and are covered through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a short questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to the therapist's availability.
How Victoria’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of every session. It involves open listening, reflecting what matters to the person and working at their pace, which helps with anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Existential Therapy looks at values, choice and meaning in life and can be useful when people face big changes, questions about purpose or feel stuck by past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Victoria will collaborate with each person to decide which ideas and methods feel most helpful. Together they set aims and adjust the focus as understanding grows and needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, live chat suits people who prefer typing and text messaging allows more flexible, ongoing contact. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, travel or family commitments and help people continue therapy when in-person meetings are difficult.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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