About Alexandra
Alexandra Skan is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those coping with addictions, trauma, low self-esteem and depression. Her approach is warm and interactive, and she aims to create an open space where people can talk without fear of judgement.
She draws on four years of professional counselling experience plus many more years working directly with substance misuse.
Background and approach
That background informs practical ways to address cravings, relapse risk and motivation to change. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps as well as exploring the events that maintain distress. Alexandra uses client-centred care alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and attachment-based ideas.
That means conversations centre on the person in front of her while also looking at thoughts and behaviour patterns. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, test new ways of coping, and rebuild trusting connections where attachment wounds are present. Mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing are also part of her work.
These tools are used to reduce stress, strengthen commitment to goals, and increase awareness of habits that feed difficulties such as anxiety or addictive behaviour. She adapts each plan to fit a person’s life and aims. Alexandra keeps sessions practical and down-to-earth, focusing on what can be done between meetings.
Her style is respectful and compassionate, and she works collaboratively to help people move towards more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alexandra uses client-centred work that keeps the person’s own goals at the centre of each session. This approach focuses on listening, understanding and shaping the conversation around what matters to the individual. It helps people feel heard and respected while they consider change.She also works with cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviours. CBT is practical and task-focused, which can help with anxiety, low mood and patterns that feed addictive behaviour. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships influence current trust and closeness, useful when intimacy or relationship patterns cause distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust the way sessions run to match a person’s needs and goals. The collaboration aims to make therapy feel relevant and achievable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to keep continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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