Vanessa Teixeira, NCPS
6 years in practice
Vanessa Teixeira is a counsellor who uses evidence-based therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma, low self-esteem and relationship struggles.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS22-02835 · expires July 2026
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Vanessa
Vanessa Teixeira is a counsellor who uses evidence-based therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma, low self-esteem and relationship struggles. She communicates in English and Portuguese and brings six years of professional experience to her work. Vanessa focuses on practical, person-led conversations.
She adapts each session to a person’s needs and pace. Sessions are straightforward and aim to build skills people can use between meetings. Her approach blends therapies such as acceptance and commitment work, attachment-informed methods, and cognitive behavioural techniques.
Background and approach
These tools support people to notice unhelpful patterns, try new responses and build more flexible ways of coping. Vanessa describes her style as respectful, sensitive and compassionate. She encourages people to take small steps and recognises that change often happens gradually.
The emphasis is on working together to set realistic goals and track progress. Practical issues are part of the plan too. Sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules.
She accepts clients from the United Kingdom and internationally, and the subscription model can be cancelled at any time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Vanessa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- 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
- 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
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Vanessa names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Practical therapies for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and motivation issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change mood and behaviour; it often helps with anxiety, depression and low self-esteem.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will choose which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, keeping the plan practical and collaborative.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, so people can fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone can be quicker and needs less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging can suit short check-ins, notes between sessions or people who prefer writing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible for different routines and needs.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Vanessa help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and relationship issues. There are also areas of focus such as abandonment, attachment issues and body image.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and client-led, mixing acceptance and commitment ideas with attachment and cognitive behavioural techniques. Sessions focus on noticing patterns and trying new ways of coping.
How much experience does she have?
Vanessa has six years of professional experience working with the listed concerns and therapeutic approaches.
Where is she based and how is she registered?
She practises from the United Kingdom and holds the NCPS credential as supplied in her profile.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese to accommodate speakers of both languages.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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