About Alessandra
Alessandra Samson is a counsellor who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward, gentle work to help clients notice patterns that leave them exhausted. Alessandra speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
She often begins by looking at how people learned to keep others comfortable. Saying yes, avoiding conflict, and rehearsing conversations are common habits she helps clients examine.
Background and approach
The goal is to understand why those habits felt necessary and how they now cause pain. Sessions can move at a short-term or longer-term pace depending on needs. Alessandra draws on client-centred methods to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to set small, practical steps that build change over time. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including relationships, self-esteem, coping with life changes, grief, trauma and abuse, and career-related stress. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, attachment and abandonment issues, guilt and shame, and isolation or loneliness.
Alessandra is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has three years of practice and offers sessions in English to people in the United Kingdom. Therapy is offered in different formats to fit varied schedules and needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy puts the client's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens without judgement and follows what the client sees as most important, which can help with anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship concerns.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical, achievable steps. It looks for small changes that make a difference and helps people build momentum toward clearer goals, which can suit coping with life changes or stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alessandra will discuss options with each person and decide together what feels most helpful based on their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative decision can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face conversation when possible. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging give flexibility for brief check-ins and continued support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving or busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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