Victoria is a member of the referrals team at Jesmond Therapy Centre and is one of the first points of contact for new clients beginning their therapy journey.  Her role is to liaise with new clients to find out more about the issues they present with and for placing clients with an appropriate therapist.

Background Experience:

Victoria is a qualified therapist and has worked for the NHS in Primary Care Centres across the North East, supporting adults for all mental health issues using integrative counselling methods.   The main issues she worked with were low mood, anxiety, and bereavement.    More recently, this support has included staff of the NHS who have worked within the health service during the Covid Pandemic.   Victoria has also worked as a counsellor for many charities, including a national mental health charity working with adults in all areas of mental health including sexual abuse, work related stress, bereavement, low mood, anxiety, divorce, and other relationship issues including trauma.

Whilst working for a bereavement charity, she worked with clients experiencing grief and loss, which included providing support for complicated grief, traumatic death, suicide, termination, neonatal death, and other loss such as adoption.  She also successfully completing the charities foundation degree course in Bereavement.    She has experience of working with children, specifically with self-harm, bereavement, family breakdown, relationship difficulties and emotional and physical abuse.   She has worked both in educational settings and in children’s services, specifically with children with special needs, which includes communicating with families and other fellow professionals working within the NHS, children and young people’s services.

Victoria also has worked within the GP referral team, speaking with clients by phone and referring them to the appropriate services to meet their personal mental health needs.

Victoria ran her own business for many years and has expanded her experience into counselling.  Working closely with members of the public of all ages including children, gave her great knowledge and understanding of human diversity and how life events can affect the wellbeing of both children and adults.   

Victoria’s counselling utilises both integrated theoretical models including cognitive behaviour therapy. Her experience to date encompasses a diverse range of issues when working with both adults and children and she is a registered member of the BACP.

Qualifications & Experience

BA Degree with Honours – Counselling – Sunderland University

Bereavement Foundation Course

Difference and Diversity: Understanding Ethics

Working with Relational Depth Training

Dream Completion Technique, working with Trauma and Insomnia

Homophobia Training

Disenfranchised Grief Training

Mindfulness Training

Developing personal confidence and self-awareness

Wellbeing in the workplace, understanding stress and stress management