Victoria Swart

Victoria Swart is a counsellor who uses an integrative approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She holds NCPS and has seven years of practice experience. Victoria aims to make the first steps easier for someone who feels overwhelmed or unsure about asking for help.

She combines practical conversations with focused therapeutic tools. Sessions often cover coping strategies for panic, low mood, grief and identity concerns. Victoria also supports people facing relationship strain, addiction struggles, sleep and eating difficulties, and career or life transitions.

Her background includes private practice work and volunteering with a suicide and suicide prevention charity. She has experience in life coaching as well as counselling for loss and bereavement. This mix informs a flexible, person-centred way of working.

Victoria describes herself as both a trained professional and a fellow human who understands how daunting it can be to reach out. She aims to listen without judgement and help people set clear, achievable goals. Practical steps and simple tools are commonly used in sessions.

To begin, she offers an initial consultation to discuss concerns and goals. After that conversation, people can decide whether to continue and what they want to focus on. International clients can be accepted, and sessions are conducted in English.

How Victoria’s approaches work in online therapy

Victoria draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in online work. ACT helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck on them and to pick actions that fit their values. CBT looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches simple skills to change unhelpful cycles.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to understand how past relationships shape current worries and emotional responses. That perspective can help when trust, closeness or separation are causing distress. Together, these approaches aim to clarify what matters to the person and to build practical steps towards those goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be discussed collaboratively. The counsellor will talk about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest ways to proceed. That shared decision making helps tailor sessions to the individual.

The biography does not specify particular session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. These practical advantages often help people keep therapy consistent while they manage other responsibilities.