About Alexandra
Alexandra Grimes offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or difficult life changes. She writes simply and listens closely. Sessions aim to help people make sense of what they are facing and identify small, usable steps forward.
Alexandra has five years of professional experience and holds NCPS. She works online from her home in the United Kingdom and speaks English. She prefers video calls because they help build a trusting connection, but phone or messaging options are also available.
Background and approach
Her style centres on the person sitting opposite her. That means the client decides what to bring and the therapist follows, while guiding the conversation when helpful. Alexandra uses straightforward techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy alongside person-centred listening to help reduce anxiety and manage stress.
Sessions are practical and paced to each individual. Alexandra helps people understand recurring patterns, practise coping skills, and set realistic goals for change. She also addresses relationship strain, grief, sleep problems, eating concerns and many other difficulties listed in her profile.
Working together usually starts with a short conversation about what matters most to the client. From there she and the client agree a simple plan and review progress over time. The approach is warm and non-judgemental, aimed at building confidence and everyday coping rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Alexandra uses client-centred work to focus on each person's experience and priorities. This approach means the client sets the agenda while the counsellor listens, reflects and helps the person find their own answers. It is useful when someone needs space to talk through feelings and make sense of what matters most.She also employs cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. CBT offers practical tools and exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and manage mood swings or stress-related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alexandra discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and together they choose the methods that best fit the person's needs. That collaborative process is ongoing so techniques can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls help build a clearer therapeutic connection and are recommended for relationship-focused or depth work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written reflection, want flexible timing, or find it easier to express themselves in text. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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