Intuitive Eating Counsellor / Coach in East Sussex, UK

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…

For ten years before starting my work with Vania, I would starve myself, go on every diet possible, only to then binge eat and eat everything I could in sight. Then to cry and hate myself and beat myself up. All I thought about was food, diet and how my body looked. I was so unhappy in myself and this ruined past relationships and stopped me living my life. I wouldn’t go out sometimes if I felt fat. It controlled my whole life. I ruined most of my 20’s by doing this. I had tried different…

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

Overall you have helped me to come to a better place within myself – your service has been wonderful, personal, heartfelt, thought through – as have you. Thank you.

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 …

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 …

In a mere 7 sessions, Vania has already enabled me go places that 4 years of psychotherapy did not touch. I feel held, supported and safe. Nothing is too deep or daunting to touch. She is a warm, sensitive, mindful, humourous, insightful woman. I relish my sessions as I know each week some form of transformation will take place. Our work together is invaluable.

My life changed when I began working with Vania a year and a half ago. I am 67 years old. I have been working on my eating issues and size acceptance issues for most of my adult life. I have done dieting of every shape and color, lots of therapy, many workshops with people whose books I am sure that you have read, Overeaters Anonymous, Smart Recovery, given up, etc. etc. Although I had heard of Binge Eating Disorder, I had never really identified with it until I did a little more research …

I went to Vania because she showed up in my life at the right time, when I decided I had had enough. I was fed up with my obsession with weight, diets, and the never-ending roller-coaster of self- loathing that came with them as a bonus, that for over half of my life eroded any traces of self-respect and acceptance. Vania showed me in a kind, clear and encouraging way the path to live in the present moment and to self acceptance, which makes it possible to find a place within you where the chase…