About Alison
Alison Fraser is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 20 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship strain. Alison aims to help people find clarity and feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Alison's background includes work across statutory and community settings. She has worked in the NHS as a specialist mental health therapist and has experience in trauma, addictions and eating disorders.
Background and approach
She has also run a mental health charity and delivered services in schools and local community projects. Her approach is practical and compassionate. Sessions focus on building insight, spotting unhelpful patterns and trying out manageable changes.
She uses a mix of talking techniques shaped around each person's needs rather than a single fixed method. Alison has supported people with grief, parenting pressures, neurodiversity, childhood abuse and long-term health conditions. She also works with concerns such as compulsive behaviours, body image and career-related stress.
Her experience includes both adults and young people in independent practice and earlier roles in public services. People meet Alison for straightforward, kind conversation and clear next steps. She works collaboratively, helping clients set goals and learn practical ways to cope.
Sessions aim to leave people with tools they can use between appointments.
How Alison's approaches work online
Alison uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as part of her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and practising new ways of responding to stressful situations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions in line with those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alison will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods might help most. She adapts techniques to fit the client rather than expecting clients to fit a single model. Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual contact and work more directly with emotions, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer typing, want brief check-ins, or need to fit therapy around a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to fit sessions into work or family routines.Questions people ask
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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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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