About me
My name is Vicky (she/her) and I'm a therapist and supervisor, speaker, writer and activist, working exclusively online from Kent, UK, with clients around the world. I have particular experience working with disordered eating, trauma and identity affirmation, and I centre consent based, respectful, relational practice and cultural safety.
My work with disordered eating and eating disorders is centered in body liberation, and is non-diet and weight neutral in its approach. I have significant experience in working with clients in bigger bodies who have experienced a disordered relationship with food and body. You don't need a diagnosis for us to honour your experience, and I have worked with hundreds of clients to give their body story the respect and care they deserve.
My work online allows me to work with clients most aligned with my practice - finding satisfying and sustainable partnership, facilitating deep therapeutic connection, and engaging in process that is meaningful and useful to you. Sometimes I'm joined by my little dog, Vita, who snoozes in the corner.
I think my clients would describe me as warm, impassioned, and caring. I don't have any chill, really, and that's a strength! I care about my work being affirming, and I'm a good cheerleader and passionate advocate. I take things seriously, I give them weight, I'm not scared of big feelings. I'm tenacious and robust. I use humour and metaphor a lot, and I think this lightness and storytelling facilitates us in the work of therapy. I'm enjoying entering into an elder position within our body liberation community. I love recommending books and Tik Tok wisdom.
I might be the first person who has said that your body is not a problem. I know, in my politics, in my head and heart, that your body is not the problem. Your body is your partner, your protector, and your ally.
I think your body is wise. I think your body is trustworthy, and brave, and holy, and tenacious, and playful. I think your body holds answers. I think your body wants to be in community with you.
I love my work, and I think that when we build a safe, trusting relationship, we can facilitate real healing, restoring the safety and joy that you deserve.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training and qualifications
I hold a Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling, and a Certificate in Counselling Skills, from Wealden College. The training is accredited by the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).
My work is based on my humanistic therapeutic training as a foundation, strongly rooted in the traditions of talking therapy. Woven into this, through the years I have prioritised anti-oppressive training, trauma training, and eating disorder training. My work is informed by social justice movements, liberatory therapy and Body Trust.
Experience
I've been doing this work for a while now - nearly fifteen years. Prior to this, I worked in victim support services and charitable therapeutic services. I have valued seasons cooking for a service for our local insecurely housed community, and running a local sling meet and national sling library for some years. And prior to all this, I was a chef!
I am a member of the Association of Size Diversity and Health.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£115.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I understand that therapy is a big financial commitment, and I believe quality emotional support should be available to everyone. I offer a sliding scale discounted rate, mutually agreed upon between us, for those not able to pay the full session cost. Typically, this rate is used by those who don’t have the same access to resources due to structural inequality, whether that’s income level or those with marginalized identities. This rate is also available to students currently enrolled on a counselling course, needing personal counselling as a requirement of their qualification. Please do get in touch to discuss further.
When I work
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Further information
My work focuses on walking with those who want to heal their relationship with food and body. Often, these people have experienced weight stigma, or faced the trauma of oppression.
My work is concerned with being in community with clients as they deepen their tolerance of what it is to be deeply human. Unfinished, work in progress, wild and playful.
My work is politicized, and we take time not just to consider your individual experience, but also how that is shaped and influenced by systems and structures. My work seeks to be actively anti-oppressive, and I centre marginalised voices in my ongoing education and training.
My own positionality as a fat person who has healed from an eating disorder gives me vital lived experience - I know what it's like to seek to say whole in a world that wants you to stay in pieces.
I write a Substack called Fat Bubble where you can read more of my work, and use Instagram an an opportunity to develop community and advocacy.
