Victoria "Vicki" Readings, BACP

Victoria "Vicki" Readings is a counselling therapist based in the United Kingdom with five years of practice and a BACP registration. She mixes talking therapy with creative tools, aiming to make sessions gentle and practical. Vicki seeks to help people feel heard and to build skills for everyday life.

Her training includes Adlerian ideas, which look at how childhood and family background shape adult choices. She combines person-centred listening with creative and metaphorical techniques. Examples she uses are drawing and phototherapy to help people express things that are hard to say.

Vicki also brings holistic methods into sessions, such as yoga, laughter yoga and mindfulness. These can be used alongside talking to help manage stress and anxiety. She adapts these tools to what each person finds useful and practical.

Areas she commonly supports include stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, self-esteem and coping with life changes. She also focuses on communication problems, separation and divorce, isolation and finding life purpose. Vicki pays attention to aspects of pregnancy and childbirth and to women’s issues when they come up in conversation.

Her style is collaborative and down to earth. She helps people notice patterns, try new ways of coping and practise small changes between sessions. The aim is greater self-understanding and clearer choices.

To begin, she encourages people to take a small step and reach out so they can talk about what matters to them and decide on a way forward together.

How her approaches work online and in sessions

Adlerian ideas focus on how early life and family influence current choices and relationships. In plain terms this involves noticing recurring patterns and looking at the goals behind behaviour, which can help with confidence, communication and making different choices.

Person-centred talking places the client’s experience at the centre. The therapist listens without judgement and reflects back what she hears, helping people feel clearer about their feelings and decide what to try next.

Vicki also uses creative methods such as drawing and phototherapy to help people express things that are difficult to put into words, and she can bring in mindfulness, yoga or laughter yoga as practical ways to ease stress and build coping skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then try methods that suit them. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as the work progresses.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm available options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions around work and family life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let someone pick approaches that suit their day-to-day routine without changing how the therapeutic process works.