About Alan
Alan Williams is a counsellor with 19 years' experience who helps people dealing with relationship pain, anxiety, grief and life changes. He focuses on what sits behind emotions and behaviours so clients can find practical ways to cope. Alan works with individuals and couples and aims to make sessions feel calm, respectful and direct.
He prefers a relationship and attachment lens. That means he looks at how patterns between people shape current struggles.
Background and approach
He uses Imago Relationship Therapy dialogues with couples to repair disconnection and build emotional intimacy. He also supports parenting and family concerns, communication problems and issues around separation. Alan has a PACFA credential.
He draws on many years of work in family dispute resolution and employee assistance programs to help with conflict, workplace stress and practical planning. That background means he is used to clear, goal-focused conversations about next steps. For trauma and phobias he uses a tapping-based method influenced by Emotional Freedom Technique and elements of desensitisation work to reduce intense reactions to triggers.
He says people do not need a formal diagnosis to benefit when a clear trigger can be identified. Alan also offers support for grief and complex family identity issues, including reunions after adoption or donor conception discoveries. He aims to help people understand their story and find ways to move forward that suit their values and relationships.
Imago work and online relationship therapy
Alan uses Imago Relationship Therapy with couples to guide structured dialogues that uncover unmet needs and improve how partners listen and respond to each other. The method teaches specific steps for reflecting and asking in ways that reduce blame and increase connection, which suits intimacy and communication problems.He also uses a focused tapping-based desensitisation approach for phobias and intense trigger reactions. This method works by guiding attention and bodily responses while gently reducing the power of a trigger, making everyday situations less distressing over time.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alan will talk with you about your goals, worries and preferred ways of working and suggest methods that fit. Together you can review progress and adjust techniques to match what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue for Imago exercises, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low, and messaging or live chat can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to use a camera. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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