Counsellor profile
Victoria Smith, BACP
Counsellor for stress and life changes
See online counselling options- Solution-Focused Therapy
- ADHD related challenges
- Career and coaching
About Victoria
Counsellor Victoria Smith is a BACP member with three years' experience working with adults in the United Kingdom. She helps people with stress, anxiety, low motivation, confidence issues, ADHD-related challenges and life changes. She also offers support around career questions, depression, coaching and compassion fatigue.
Victoria uses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. That means sessions look at what is already helping and how to build on small steps. Conversations focus on clear, practical goals rather than long histories.
Sessions are collaborative. The counsellor and client identify strengths and past successes and use those to plan next steps. Work usually centres on workable changes to daily routines, coping strategies and clearer priorities.
Victoria makes time to talk through what a person wants from counselling. She adapts pace and topics to each session so progress can be checked and revised. People leave with short-term actions they can try between meetings.
She works in English and accepts international clients. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules a first session. Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How Solution-Focused work translates to online counselling
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy concentrates on practical steps and clear goals. Sessions look at what is already helping and build small, repeatable steps to make things better. This approach is useful for issues like stress, anxiety, low motivation and life transitions where focused change is the aim.The counsellor also brings a goal-focused coaching style. That means work often includes short action plans, reviewing what worked and adjusting plans together. It suits people who want brief, directed sessions to test small changes between meetings.
Finding the right way of working is part of the early sessions. The counsellor and client decide together which methods and pace suit the client’s needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative choice helps shape how sessions proceed and what actions are set between meetings.
The therapist’s biography does not specify session formats, so please confirm the available options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow sessions during a lunch break or after work. Phone sessions can be useful when less bandwidth is needed, and video sessions let people use visual cues when that helps the work.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, low motivation, confidence issues, ADHD-related challenges, career questions and depression.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, which concentrates on practical goals and building on what already works.
How much professional experience does she have?
She has three years of professional experience working with adults in the United Kingdom.
Which professional body is she a member of?
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
What languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started?
Use the See online counselling options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A membership or registration can be checked on the professional body's own register.
Online counselling is not emergency care. In an emergency call 999, or see the help numbers.