About Alana
Alana Black is a counsellor with four years' experience working across the charity sector, the public health service and her independent practice in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, which denotes registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Alana presents as calm and practical, and she aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable and clear.
She uses an integrative, trauma-informed approach that draws on trauma-focused therapies, mindfulness and attachment theory.
Background and approach
In sessions she helps people talk through stress, anxiety and low mood. She also supports those wrestling with self-esteem, relationship worries and major life transitions. Alana has particular experience with problems linked to attachment and abandonment, and with the ways those difficulties show up as perfectionism, avoidance or feeling empty.
She also addresses issues such as body image, codependency, communication problems and the emotional fallout from separation and divorce. Her style is warm and respectful, with practical steps alongside emotional exploration. Alana will tailor each session to fit what a person needs right now, whether that means building coping skills, practising mindfulness, or working through painful memories.
People who choose her often want plain language, clear goals and a steady, compassionate presence while they work through change. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients when appropriate.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Alana draws on trauma-informed work that helps people understand how painful events affect thoughts and feelings. This approach focuses on safety, pacing and gentle processing to reduce the hold traumatic memories have on daily life.She also uses mindfulness practices to teach simple attention and breathing skills. These practices help with anxiety, racing thoughts and intense emotions by offering tools to calm the body and re-centre attention.
Attachment-informed ideas are another strand of her work, helping people spot patterns in relationships and learn different ways of connecting. This is useful for those struggling with abandonment, trust or recurring conflict.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will ask about your goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative stance aims to make therapy practical and relevant to your life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video helps when visual contact is useful, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat can be handy for brief check-ins, and messaging supports short, flexible updates. These options give people choice and make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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