Intuitive Eating Counsellor / Coach in East Sussex, UK

Working with Vania is a very gentle and non judgemental process. Vania firmly guides you to find your own answers and question your thoughts. Vania creates a safe space for you to feel what you need to feel. I have gained so much benefit from our coaching and would highly recommend Vania to anyone who wants to end their struggle with food or anything for that matter!

The reason why I was interested in working with Vania was what I noticed on a Binge Eating Disorder Facebook page! I just felt the way she answered questions and responded was intuitive, knowledgeable, understanding and empowering. Her responses resonated with me and made me feel better about myself and what I was going through and I hadn’t even spoken to her! I did some research and found her Peaceful Eating website. Before I worked with Vania I was stuck. Although I had made efforts to st… Read more

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… Read more

 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!

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… Read more

When I first found Vania online I was at a point in my recovery where I was expected by society to have achieved ‘full’ recovery from a restrictive eating disorder because of my appearance. However, I was anything but. I knew that I was far from recovered mentally, and Vania was the one who helped me achieve acceptance of my body and myself in general. She was so kind, logical, and caring in her approach to helping me, and she made it clear that she was always there to support me outside… Read more

1. You hold the space 2. You encourage 3. You create a safe space 4. You help me understand that my feelings/fears are manageable. 5. You help me create a path from fear to acceptance by questioning, challenging, validating, honoring, empathizing… 6. You offer another perspective when I can’t find one 7. You gently guide me 8. By naming what I may be feeling and thinking, you help me remove the shame and stigma I attach 9. You offer small, manageable alternatives, stepping stones… Read more

I have been working with Vania for the past eighteen months and she has been invaluable as a firm, steady, loving companion on my journey towards a more healthy relationship with food and my body. Having spent the majority of my life fighting to remain slim, fit, perfect – it has been a huge relief to let go of the fear surrounding eating and to learn, step by step to trust my body, to be kind to myself and to open up to myself and others, Whilst I started in order to address my out of contro… Read more

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.

I have sought support from Vania a number of times over the past couple of years, and each time she has responded quickly and willingly. Without question, she has an ability to listen and hear beyond just what I’m saying. I have found our interactions to be incredibly helpful, and the time we’ve had together has been used wisely and purposefully. She has listened to me, questioned me, and given me bold support with what she’s seen, support that is wise and insightful and without a doubt, loving … Read more