Victoria Cowgill, BACP

Victoria Cowgill provides compassionate counselling and psychotherapy for people navigating difficult life moments, including times when they feel overwhelmed, hopeless, or stuck. She recognises that being listened to without judgement can feel like a vital first step when distress or worry makes everyday life harder, and she aims to create a therapeutic space where exploration and understanding can begin.

Clients come to her for a range of concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, and related challenges like panic, low self-esteem, anger, chronic illness, and adjustment to major life changes. She also has experience with more complex presentations including PTSD and issues arising from domestic violence and bereavement. Her work is practised with sensitivity to attachment and historical factors, and she supports people who are repeating unhelpful patterns or struggling to make sense of current and past events.

She is a UK-registered practitioner and holds BACP accreditation, which identifies her as a member of a professional counselling body. Her training began with Person-Centred Therapy and continued to an Integrative counselling degree - BSc (1st Class Hons) - followed by further psychotherapy training. Her clinical approach draws on client-centred principles, psychodynamic ideas, and trauma-focused methods, and she also incorporates techniques such as stress management, mindfulness, and breathwork where appropriate.

In sessions she prioritises building a respectful therapeutic relationship to help each person clarify their needs and goals. Rather than prescribing solutions, she works collaboratively to explore what is happening, develop clearer perspective, and support practical steps toward change. She recognises that starting therapy requires courage and offers steady, experienced support to help people begin that process.