About me
I’m an accredited Integrative Psychotherapist and Life Coach with a holistic approach. I see individuals and couples both online and in-person.
I work with individuals experiencing anxiety, low mood, bereavement, relationship difficulties, addiction, intrusive thoughts and life or career transitions. I also work with couples who may feel stuck, in crisis, disconnected, or caught in repeating patterns, and those at a life juncture, who simply want to reconnect and refresh their relationship.
Couples therapy provides a space to slow things down, improve communication, and work through areas of difficulty or disconnection, with the aim of building a more connected and supportive relationship.
Individual Psychotherapy
In personal psychotherapy, the focus is on helping you recognise what feels true to you, and what belongs to the past. Together, we explore patterns of behaviour, emotional responses, and experiences that may be shaping your present circumstances. Psychotherapy can support you in understanding and changing patterns that no longer serve you. Once we have explored your history and brought these patterns into awareness, I may incorporate a range of approaches to support movement and change: including behavioural experiments, guided visualisation, chair work, and other experiential techniques, depending on your needs. Occasionally, I also integrate elements of coaching, such as goal setting, where this feels helpful and appropriate.
Couples Therapy
We begin by exploring the dynamics within your relationship, your shared history, and what each of you hopes to gain from the work. I aim to create a calm, non-judgemental and balanced space where you can speak openly. This includes ensuring that both partners feel equally heard and understood. I do not take sides, but work with the relationship itself — helping you to explore patterns of communication, emotional responses, and the deeper dynamics shaping your connection.
At times, the work may feel challenging, but this is often where meaningful change begins.
The initial assessment is 75 minutes, allowing space to hear from both partners and to begin to understand what is happening between you.
Please visit my website for more information. www.vikkiscottpsychotherapy.com
Training, qualifications & experience
I have completed a five-year training and have a Psychotherapy Post Graduate Diploma from Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE). During my training I completed 18 month placements at: The Maudsley Hospital, where I worked in the acute men’s ward and Help Counselling. I also completed one year placements at the Caravan in Piccadilly and Maytree, a suicide retreat centre in Finsbury park. I'm currently undertaking a Diploma in Transpersonal Couple Counselling & Intimate Relationship Psychotherapy at CCPE also.
Qualifications & Ethics
- 4 Year Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy - Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE)
- 1 Year Foundation in Psychotherapy - Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE)
- UKCP Member no. 2011170332
- BACP Membership no. 00976591
- Diploma in Transpersonal Couple Counselling & Intimate Relationship Psychotherapy at CCPE (currently undergoing)
- Life Coaching Diploma (Achievement Specialists)
- BMUS Honours from Goldsmiths College, University of London
I have full professional indemnity and public liability insurance. I have regular clinical supervision and work to a strict code of Ethics set by UKCP and BACP.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
OCD
Childhood abuse
Issues with Family
Therapies offered
Fees
£95.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fee for individual therapy is £95 a session.
My fee for an initial assessment for couples therapy is £115 for 75m. Follow-up sessions are £100 for 60 minutes.
When I work
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Further information
Psychotherapy can help change negative patterns of behaviour by shedding light on what has been repressed and supporting you to implement new behaviours. It can also help you process past traumas and deal with everyday stress, as well as supporting you with relationship, health and work issues.
In psychotherapy you’ll learn the skills to recognise what is true to you and what belongs in the past.
The success of therapy lies in the healing relationship between the client and therapist so it is imperative to choose the right therapist. You are the expert on your life but I will endeavour to do my best to walk beside you and help facilitate transformation.
