Eva Vass

Eva Vass offers a calm, attentive presence for people seeking greater understanding of their feelings and life patterns. Many find that friends and family respond with advice or sympathy rather than deep listening, and Eva works with clients who want someone to sit alongside them as they explore their thoughts, emotions and the roots of how they experience life.

Working from a predominantly person-centred stance, she places the therapeutic relationship at the heart of the work, responding from a deeper level of empathy and listening to understand rather than to reply. Her style is non-directive and she aims to create clear boundaries and a respectful, genuine connection that supports clients to relate to themselves with more acceptance, kindness and compassion.

As an integrative counsellor Eva can draw on psychodynamic approaches when exploring life events, attachment patterns and subconscious material, and she uses cognitive behavioural techniques when it is helpful for clients to examine unhelpful thinking patterns and the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The client leads the sessions, while Eva remains anchored in a person-to-person therapeutic space.

She holds a Level 4 diploma in therapeutic counselling, an advanced diploma-level qualification, and is an individual member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), working in line with their Code of Ethics. Her ongoing professional development includes workshops and courses such as safeguarding children and young people, LGBTQ terminology and pronouns, supporting young people with eating disorders, a certificate in online and telephone counselling, and training in gender and sexuality.

Eva has three years of experience and has worked with both young people and adults on issues including anxiety, depression, self-harm, low self-esteem, neurodiversity, suicidal ideation, transgender matters, childhood trauma, co-dependency, eating disorders and relationship difficulties. She offers a supportive space for people to reconnect with themselves, which can help change the way they relate to others and to life’s challenges.