Verity Spencer, BACP

Verity Spencer works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship struggles. She also helps with self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, parenting concerns and career-related stress. Her approach is steady and calm, aimed at helping people make clearer choices when life feels overwhelming.

She draws on 14 years of clinical experience and holds BACP accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her background includes roles in education and youth support and earlier experience in radio and television broadcasting. That mix means she is used to listening to many different perspectives and to working with people from varied cultural backgrounds.

Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the person in front of her. Verity uses a mix of attachment-based thinking, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural tools and psychodynamic ideas. This means practical strategies may sit alongside space to understand past patterns and emotional needs.

People can expect a respectful, non-judgemental space to talk through difficult feelings. Verity aims to reduce confusion and to help people find ways to manage challenges or make changes. Conversations are paced to each person’s needs and priorities.

Her work often addresses complex life events such as bereavement, separation, domestic violence, fertility and health-related worries. She also supports those coping with loneliness, guilt, shame or issues around intimacy and communication.

To begin, potential clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. Fees vary with location and therapist availability and are managed through a cancellable subscription.

Approaches you can try online

Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional needs. It helps when people want to understand patterns in attachment, intimacy issues or feelings of loneliness.

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and supporting a person to find their own solutions. It is useful for building self-esteem, processing grief or simply having a steady space to talk.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, gives practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems by teaching clear techniques to try between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore a person’s aims, preferences and practical needs and then collaboratively decide which methods to use. That may mean blending approaches as goals change over time.

Online therapy lets people access support from different places and at different times. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats provide flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.