Victoria Porteous, NCPS

Victoria Porteous, NCPS, draws on personal experience and eleven years in practice to offer grounded, conversational counselling. She keeps sessions personable and straightforward, using humour when appropriate and asking practical questions to help people open up. Her style avoids clinical jargon and focuses on real conversations that feel like a chat when trust is present.

She works with thoughts and everyday habits to shift how people respond to stress, anxiety and difficult life changes. Sessions often include looking at unhelpful patterns and gently challenging thoughts to try other perspectives. Victoria uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside attachment-focused work and emotionally-focused methods.

Victoria has worked with trauma survivors and ran counselling services for a Government-backed trauma charity during the COVID period. She also provides support through charities that accept doctor or agency referrals and sees people in private practice for individual counselling and coaching. Her background includes work with business leaders, athletes and public figures, and she contributes on national radio about mental health and social issues.

Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including relationship and family difficulties, grief and bereavement, addictions, low self-esteem, parenting and blended-family challenges. She says she aims to be the kind of therapist she needed when life felt bleak, offering tailored sessions that target what matters most to each person.

Victoria is based in the United Kingdom and works in English. She is registered as NCPS and brings eleven years of experience to her counselling and coaching work.

How Victoria’s approaches work in online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then taking steps that match someone’s values. It can help when thoughts and habits get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It often suits people dealing with anxiety, stress and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and can support work on connection, trust and intimacy issues.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then try methods that fit the person's needs. That may mean blending elements from different approaches as the therapy progresses.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel time or allowing shorter check-ins during a work break. It can also suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who need a lower-bandwidth option. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, homework and practical tools to work well in remote sessions so therapy still focuses on changing thoughts and everyday habits.