Vanessa Gordon, BACP

Vanessa Gordon is an integrative therapeutic counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She works from an integrative framework that draws on client-centered, psychodynamic, narrative, solution-focused, and internal family systems approaches to address how past experiences, present patterns, and interpersonal dynamics shape a person’s wellbeing. Vanessa combines these therapeutic models to tailor support to each person's needs and goals.

She brings additional complementary practices into her work, including Reiki II energy healing, mindfulness, emotional freedom techniques (EFT), Ho’oponopono methods, and meditation. Vanessa also serves as a trained Mental Health First Aid facilitator and incorporates psychoeducation on self-love and self-care to help people strengthen resilience and everyday coping skills.

Vanessa has experience supporting adults with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and family difficulties, self-esteem and body image issues, grief and loss, intimacy-related challenges, career concerns, and bipolar disorder. Her practice also attends to related areas such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, dependence, dissociation, domestic violence, guilt and shame, and fatherhood issues. She aims to help people explore identity, attachment patterns, defence mechanisms, and self-validation while working toward greater balance and wellbeing.

Vanessa is a member of BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which is a professional organisation for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom.