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Victoria Porteous, NCPS

Online sessions across the UK 11+ years in practice

Victoria Porteous draws on over a decade of direct experience to work alongside people facing difficult life moments.

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About Victoria

Victoria Porteous draws on over a decade of direct experience to work alongside people facing difficult life moments. She combines practical talking therapy with a down-to-earth style. Sessions are conversational and grounded, with a focus on building real connection rather than ticking boxes.

Victoria shares that her own experience of loss and recovery shaped her understanding of grief, addiction and low mood. She aims to make sessions feel like an honest conversation, sometimes using light humour and gentle challenge to help people consider different perspectives.

Background and approach

She avoids formal checklists and prefers questions that prompt real reflection. In her background she has worked with a government-backed trauma charity, running counselling services during the Covid period and providing support for people with complex trauma. She also works with charity referrals from doctors and government agencies, and has provided counselling and coaching for individuals and organisations in independent practice.

Her practice includes support for relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, stress and anxiety, addictions, self-esteem issues and grief. Additional focuses include blended family and step-parenting challenges, intimacy-related concerns and a range of personality and attachment issues. Victoria also lists ADHD, career and compassion fatigue among her areas of work.

Victoria holds NCPS as a listed credential. She has 11 years of experience and works from the United Kingdom. Her approach draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which she adapts to each person’s needs.

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NCPS VG00P07 August 2026

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Sessions and payment

Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.

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Focus areas and approaches

What Victoria works with

Everything Victoria lists, in their own terms.

Approaches Victoria lists

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Online support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking and focus on values-based action. It is useful for anxiety, stress, difficulty with life changes and low motivation. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people identify and change unhelpful emotional responses. This approach is often used for relationship and intimacy-related issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps people spot and test thinking patterns that keep problems going and learn practical coping skills for anxiety, stress and mood problems.

Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they will try methods that suit the person’s needs and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls work well for longer sessions where face-to-face interaction matters. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit into a busy day and support quick reflections between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and fit therapy around work and family commitments.

Frequently asked

What kinds of problems does she help with?

She helps people with relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, stress and anxiety, addictions, low self-esteem and grief. Additional areas include parenting challenges, blended family issues, intimacy-related problems and work-related stress.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Sessions are conversational and personable, often using gentle challenge and occasional humour. The work focuses on practical talk and perspective shifts rather than rigid tests or scales.

How much experience does she have?

Victoria has 11 years of experience working in counselling and coaching settings, including managing counselling services during the Covid period for a government-backed trauma charity.

What credentials does she hold and where is she based?

She lists NCPS as a credential and practises from the United Kingdom.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and situations.

How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin therapy with her?

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