About Vanessa
Vanessa Teixeira is a counsellor who combines somatic awareness with practical talking therapies. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and relationship difficulties. Vanessa speaks English and Portuguese and practices from the United Kingdom while supporting international clients as well.
Vanessa uses body-focused work alongside cognitive and emotion-based approaches. Sessions often include grounding, noticing physical reactions, and linking those sensations to thoughts and feelings. This helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, chronic stress or trauma responses.
Background and approach
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to build coping skills. Those methods help clients spot unhelpful thought patterns and try small behavioural experiments. The counsellor adapts tools to match each person’s life and goals rather than offering one fixed plan.
Clients can expect a respectful, calm manner and straightforward conversation about what is helpful. Vanessa aims to make steps feel manageable and concrete, not abstract. Her six years of professional experience inform a practical style that prioritises what works day to day.
Sessions are available in several online formats and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
How Vanessa blends somatic work and talking therapy online
Somatic-informed work focuses on bodily experience and simple grounding techniques. It helps people notice physical signs of stress, breath patterns or tension and link those sensations to emotions. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma-related responses and chronic stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing hard thoughts and feelings without fighting them. Clients clarify personal values and take small committed actions that match those values, which can help with low motivation or cyclical worry.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current responses. It can help people who struggle with trust, fear of abandonment or repeating difficult relational patterns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try techniques and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. This makes sessions tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexible access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options let people fit therapy around work, family and time zones and choose whatever communication style feels safest. The variety of formats can support different stages of change, from brief check-ins to deeper weekly sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Personality disorders
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese