Meet Vanessa Higgins
Vanessa is a professionally qualified Psychotherapist and Social Care Manager with over 20 years’ experience working with children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. Vanessa also supports adults who are experiencing difficulties, processing previous events, or hoping to create new possibilities for their future.
Vanessa greets each client with kindness, acceptance, curiosity, and respect, as she believes that the therapeutic alliance is essential to the healing process. By employing a person-centred approach—such as CBT, solution-focused therapy, compassion-focused therapy, and mindfulness—she offers a secure, safe, and compassionate space where clients can explore life experiences, gain a deeper understanding of themselves, and discover more fulfilling ways of living.
Vanessa is committed to continued personal and professional development, regularly engaging with supervision and further training, believing that her own development as a therapist reflects the growth she encourages in her clients.
Areas of Expertise: Anxiety, Depression, bereavement and loss, relationship and work-related issues, school and peer difficulties, emotional regulation and coping strategies.
Client Age Group: Age 12 upwards
Availability: Tuesday evening
Favourite Quote: “The shoe that fits one person pinches another, there is no one recipe for living that suits all cases” – Carl Jung.
