About Alison
Alison Faraday is a counsellor who supports people coping with anxiety and relationship struggles. She also helps with depression, stress, parenting concerns and life changes. Alison works with a wide range of personal difficulties including grief, trauma, self-esteem and issues around intimacy and boundaries.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on understanding what is happening now and what could make daily life easier. Alison uses talking, reflection and simple strategies to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Her background includes three years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has worked with people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties and caregiver stress, and supports those facing chronic illness or pain.
Alison draws on several approaches to shape sessions, including attachment-based work to look at close relationships, client-centred listening to follow each person’s pace, and cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking. She adapts the work to the concern and the person’s goals. Sessions are offered in English and can take place by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
People can expect calm, practical conversations aimed at clearer choices and small steps toward feeling steadier.
How Alison’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional reactions. Online sessions can help people notice relational patterns and practise new ways of relating with partners, parents or themselves. Client-centred counselling focuses on attentive, non-judgemental listening and follows the client’s pace. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they make sense of their feelings and goals. Cognitive behavioural ideas concentrate on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behaviour changes to reduce anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Alison will discuss different ways of working and agree what feels most helpful for each person’s aims. The plan can change over time as needs and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversational flow, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to try therapy in ways that fit day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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