Vanessa Putnam

Vanessa Putnam is a counsellor with nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and a BACP registration. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and loss, and navigate relationship and family concerns. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping clients take practical steps forward.

In sessions she adapts conversation and the plan to each person's situation. She supports people dealing with parenting strains, changes in work or mood, and challenges such as sleep or eating difficulties. She also works with those facing addiction, trauma and abuse, or chronic health and caregiving stress.

Vanessa uses approaches that centre the person and their story. She draws on client-centred methods to make space for the client's perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to look at patterns of thinking and behaviour.

Her wider practice includes attention to attachment issues, blended family dynamics, multicultural concerns and the practical impacts of prejudice and discrimination. She has experience with people facing end-of-life and hospice challenges, cancer-related stress, and isolation or loneliness.

People can expect a calm, compassionate relationship where the counsellor listens first and suggests steps after. Vanessa aims to help clients build coping skills and clearer communication. She encourages small, achievable changes and checks in about what is most useful as work progresses.

Therapeutic approaches and online counselling

Client-centred work focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The counsellor listens carefully and follows the client's lead, helping them find their own solutions and build confidence. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact, teaching practical techniques to reduce anxiety, improve mood and change unhelpful habits.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Vanessa will talk with clients about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process means plans can change as needs become clearer.

Please confirm the specific session options before booking, as formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing sessions at different times of day. It can also allow shorter check-ins or sessions without being on camera if that suits the person better. Registered or accredited professionals usually adapt tools and exercises for remote sessions so progress continues even when meeting remotely.