Victoria Hookway , BACP

Victoria Hookway is a BACP-registered therapist in the United Kingdom who supports people facing significant and often life-changing challenges. She believes that the way individuals see themselves and their life experiences strongly shapes well-being, and she draws on both personal perspective and professional experience to help clients move forward.

Working in a person-centred way, Victoria treats each client as the expert of their own life and partners with them to uncover personal solutions. Sessions are led by the client’s priorities - whether that looks like building practical strategies and techniques or creating space to process emotions. She adapts pace and focus to suit each person’s needs, offering a flexible blend of reflective listening and active skill-building.

Victoria’s practice includes one-to-one work in private practice, voluntary therapeutic support for a local mental health charity, and therapeutic work within a school community to support children and families through difficult periods. Her experience spans stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting and family issues, depression, ADHD and autism spectrum conditions, grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, bipolar, relationships, and coping with life changes, among other concerns.

Clients can expect a down-to-earth practitioner who values empathy, warmth, and respect. She is motivated by the dedication clients bring to their own growth and by helping them find authentic, sustainable change. Victoria is also the author of a guided journal, 365: A Year of Self-Discovery, created to offer tools for personal exploration and understanding.

Person-centred practice and remote therapy options

Victoria primarily uses a person-centred approach, which focuses on the client as the expert in their own life and creates space for them to lead the direction of therapy. This approach helps when clients want to explore feelings, values, and personal meaning while being supported at their own pace.

She also uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to build practical strategies and skills when clients need tools to manage symptoms or life challenges. These structured techniques can help with stress, anxiety, sleep difficulties, and coping with major transitions.

In addition, Victoria offers guided journaling as a supportive tool drawn from her work and her published journal, 365: A Year of Self-Discovery. Guided writing can deepen self-reflection and complement in-session work by helping clients track patterns and insights between meetings.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Victoria works collaboratively with each person to identify goals, preferences, and the methods that best suit their needs, adjusting the plan over time as progress evolves.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support from different locations. These options offer flexibility in scheduling and communication style, allowing licensed professionals and therapists to meet clients where they are and adapt delivery to individual circumstances.