Welcome to Vanessa Contreras Consulting

An independent psychology consultancy offering a comprehensive service grounded in a humanistic value base, robust ethical framework, and reflective practitioner identity.

The practice provides psychological therapy, a specialist trauma clinic, clinical supervision, consultation, reflective practice, academic work, and professional collaborations.

All therapy, specialist trauma services, and clinical supervision are currently delivered directly by Dr Vanessa Contreras. The consultancy is actively involved in a range of professional collaborations, and as the team continues to grow, selected services may be delivered by trusted practitioners under Vanessa’s direct guidance and clinical oversight — ensuring continuity of care and a consistent standard of ethical, culturally responsive, and evidence-based practice.

Services

Sessions last 50 minutes and usually take place once a week with flexibility depending on your particular requirements.

Individual Therapy

I work closely with each individual to understand their specific difficulties and explore the underlying issues that may have caused the problems that affect them.

Supervision

As an HCPC registered practitioner, I am also able to offer clinical supervision to counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists.

Academic Work

I work as a guest lecturer, clinical tutor and director of studies at key London universities on their Counselling Psychology doctoral programmes.

Services

Sessions last 50 minutes and usually take place once a week with flexibility depending on your particular requirements.

My Values

My work is rooted in a humanistic value base which focuses on respecting the unique experience of the client; facilitating their potential to grow, orienting the work towards empowering the individual, respecting the client as an expert in their life and experience; appreciating their uniqueness and individuality and understanding the person within their social and cultural context.

Humanistic value

The core of my practice encompasses a commitment to understand and engage with my clients in a way that affords them the deepest value and respect.

Ethical Framework

This code of conduct provides me with the parameters within which I am able to make sound professional judgements in my work.

Practitioner Identity

I have developed as a practitioner who is highly reflective and can gain a deeper and more complex understanding of myself in the context of others.

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Testimonials

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances

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When we decide to live each instant fully, with all our might, to live true to ourselves and make the present moment shine, we discover and bring forth immense and unimagined strength.

Daisaku Ikeda

Your character is determined by how you challenge yourself, and how you wrestle with your problems, in a way that is unique to you. This is how character is polished and becomes diamond-like.

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My Approach

Specifically Tailored Interventions

My approach to psychological therapy is focused on integrating established and contemporary psychological theory and research within therapeutic practice.

During the course of therapy, I will work closely with each individual to understand their specific difficulties and explore the underlying issues that may have caused the problems that affect them. As such, my approach involves working collaboratively with clients in order to enable them to understand themselves and their difficulties and to empower them to make the changes that are relevant to them in order to improve their wellbeing.

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

Daisaku Ikeda

When we decide to live each instant fully, with all our might, to live true to ourselves and make the present moment shine, we discover and bring forth immense and unimagined strength.

Daisaku Ikeda

Your character is determined by how you challenge yourself, and how you wrestle with your problems, in a way that is unique to you. This is how character is polished and becomes diamond-like.

Daisaku Ikeda