Intuitive Eating Counsellor / Coach in East Sussex, UK

Our journey together has enabled me to let go tremendously of so much ingrained judgement towards my own or others people’s bodies That alone is so freeing. I am definitely going to deepen my intention for more attunement and less disconnection. Thank you for your kind, honest, consistent, accepting, loving space you created between us. Thank you for helping me go to darker corners within me and for never making me feel judged. You are a beautiful person and long May you continue to heal those…

I have known and worked with many coaches, counsellors and therapists at the top of their game, both personally and professionally. Vania is an undiscovered gem, with a magical combination of knowledge, intelligence, empathy and humour. She has helped me more than anyone, and not just with my relationship with food and my body, but my relationship with the world as a whole. Vania completely understood me from the get-go, and helped me begin to understand myself. The advice she has to give, and h…

You are simply the best. With your help I have found my way out of ED, emotional eating AND I have found mindfulness, meditation and overall love for my own body and self. Thank you for doing this for me. It has taken a long long time but all the work, commitment and patience bring the results :-). Your support and blogs in the Facebook group supported me for the entire time, during my ups and especially during my down times where I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Now, 2 years …

When I reached out to Vania for a Discovery Session I was binging regularly and consumed with thoughts about food – what and when was I going to eat, it was my joy and has been for many years. I tried every diet, read books, etc on how to lose weight and spent thousands on therapy to stop eating. I tried practicing mindful eating and was about to give up as it wasn’t working. I decided I will just be fat the rest of my life. The blame voice was constantly around. And then I found the Peacefu…

 I certainly have taken it on board and have peacefully lost over a stone now I’m glad to say. I haven’t denied myself chocolate, biscuits or cream/meringue with fruit and I haven’t gone as far as exercising either! It hasn’t been difficult with the right mindset. Whenever people notice the weight loss I always mention Peaceful Eating so your ears might have been burning! You may well be the butterfly that flaps its wings Vania!

Working with Vania has helped me make the shift from black and white perfectionistic thinking that was keeping me stuck in the dieting mindset, to living a life where thoughts of what I should or should not be eating hardly ever enter my head. I feel at peace with food and with my body and this is freedom from a struggle that I had been living with for decades. Thank you Vania.

So the bit that most people are interested in: I lost a stone in the two months I worked with Vania. But that isn’t the whole story. The whole story is about what I found; and that is an ability to be honest with myself and approach my eating and my life with peace and respect. Vania is a wonderfully caring coach. She challenges and supports, and the tools she has to hand are incredibly valuable. You will find what works for you. But it’s not magic – you actually have to do the work. However if …

I wish I remember how I ever found Vania, but it’s really not important. I’m just so glad I did!  She helped me work through so many thoughts, ideas, opinions, feelings, and frustrations about food and my body.  She helped me uncover reasons why I have struggled and how it might have began, without spending too much time focusing on the past.   Though, I will say that connecting the dots to the past was immensely helpful for my own journey.  I found so much validation in that.  And from th…

When I first discovered Vania I was in a very lost, negative and difficult place. At 25, I was wrapped up in the conformity of today’s diet culture and the need/desire to be something I thought I needed and wanted to be. Vania has revolutionised the way I see myself and my outlook towards life. Her help has enabled me to become an accepting and positive person, but also to know how to manage the more negative times – an invaluable skill I will never take for granted. Her support, kindness and ge…

Before I met Vania I’d had a lifetime of eating emotionally, yo-yo dieting, always being conscious of food around me and how other people were eating and what they were eating; body conscious, and of comfort eating.  Vania has helped me enormously become “peaceful” around food and I feel really proud of the steps I’ve taken and the journey I’ve gone on and am continuing on. Vania has a lovely warm style, but is firm, she picks you up on things, and makes you question yourself, when ap…