Hi, I’m Vanessa Potts

I offer Counselling and Psychotherapeutic services.

I founded Inner Beacon to provide a safe, warm, and supportive space where you can explore the challenges life, relationships, and your inner world may bring. Whether you're facing anxiety, depression, stress, or navigating life's transitions, I’m here to help you find clarity, healing, and a path forward.

I take a person-centred approach, drawing on evidence-based humanistic therapeutic practices such as Person-Centred Therapy, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy. This means I meet you where you are, responding to your unique needs, patterns, and life circumstances. Together, we will explore puzzling or difficult emotions and experiences that may be holding you back, uncovering your inner understanding and fostering personal growth.

At the heart of my approach is the therapeutic relationship itself. By offering a compassionate, nonjudgmental space, I work collaboratively with you to explore your emotions and the different aspects of the self—some that may be more prominent and others that are hidden. Often our thoughts dominate our approach to life, pushing out space for our experiencing selves. Together we can create an understanding between the thinking part and the experiencing part of the self. Through this exploration, we aim to foster deeper self-understanding and a sense of relief.

While therapy is often gentle and supportive, it can also be occasionally challenging. This is because real growth sometimes requires facing difficult emotions or parts of ourselves that we may have been avoiding. But together, we will work through these challenges at a pace that feels right for you.

If you choose to start your therapeutic journey with me, I look forward to welcoming you into a space where you can feel seen, heard, and supported as you navigate the complexities of your life.