Virginia Messina, NCPS

Virginia Messina is a UK-based therapist with a Foundation Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and holds the NCPS credential, indicating professional training in counselling and psychotherapy.

She brings clinical experience from working in a domestic violence center, supporting people who have experienced relational trauma and abuse. Her clinical interests include relationships, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, coping with life changes, stress and anxiety, family and intimacy-related issues. Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, communication problems, domestic violence, guilt and shame, multicultural concerns, post-traumatic stress, and building self-love.

Virginia draws on client-centered therapy, mindfulness therapy, narrative therapy, and trauma-focused therapy to shape a collaborative and flexible approach. She offers an authentic, direct, and non-judgmental space where deeper work on emotional regulation, dysfunctional patterns, and relational dynamics can take place. The therapeutic relationship is framed as a living, transformative process, and she places importance on ensuring prospective clients understand her style before beginning work together.

She is present and engaged in sessions and can be gently provocative when it serves the work. A touch of sarcasm and humor is part of her style, and she welcomes frank expression, including swearing, when it supports honest communication. Virginia typically works with adults who want to reconnect with their inner freedom, examine habitual patterns, and discover what feels authentic and healthy. The work is oriented toward shared responsibility and steady, meaningful change rather than quick fixes.

Creativity is welcome in her practice; art, poetry, music and other expressive forms are often used to access emotion and deepen the therapeutic process. She is not the right fit for people seeking to idealize a therapist, be rescued, or have all problems solved for them. For Italian-speaking clients she prefers the formal "Lei" to maintain a clear and respectful therapeutic frame.