- Years in practice
- 7
- Registration
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Victoria
Victoria Swart is a counsellor who combines practical approaches with a warm, down-to-earth manner. She uses several evidence-based methods to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief or changes in life. Victoria holds NCPS as a credential and has seven years of experience supporting people with a wide range of concerns.
Her work focuses on what someone needs right now. She offers straightforward ways to manage difficult emotions and to build more helpful habits.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with space to talk about identity, self-esteem and recovery from loss or trauma. Victoria draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment work. She adapts these methods to individual needs, helping people try different ways of responding to painful thoughts and feelings.
Mindfulness and emotionally focused ideas are used where they fit. She has experience with issues including addictions, sleeping and eating problems, bipolar mood challenges, and coping with major life transitions. Parenting concerns are also listed among her focus areas and she can help parents talk through stress and boundaries.
Sessions are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally in English. Victoria offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
What Victoria works with
Everything Victoria lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Victoria helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Victoria lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How her approaches work online
Victoria uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and to focus on small values-driven actions. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and for people who feel stuck with unhelpful thinking.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify patterns of thinking and behaviour that maintain distress. CBT offers practical exercises and short experiments that can be done between sessions to build new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what has helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions make this flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen work for exercises. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, journalling-style exchanges or times when writing feels easier than talking.
These formats make it possible to fit counselling around work and family commitments and to try different ways of working until the best match is found.
Questions people ask about Victoria
What concerns does this counsellor address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief, plus issues such as self-esteem, addiction, sleeping and eating difficulties. Relationship and intimacy-related worries, career strain and coping with life changes are also covered.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses practical, conversational sessions that mix acceptance-based work, cognitive approaches and attachment-informed thinking. The style is collaborative and focused on finding workable steps.
What experience does she bring?
She has seven years of experience working with people on anxiety, depression, trauma, loss and identity issues, and has combined independent practice and voluntary work in her background.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She lists NCPS as her credential and is based in the United Kingdom.
Are sessions available in other languages or countries?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats does she offer?
She works by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to give flexible options for different needs.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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