About Alison
Alison Gordon is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 11 years of professional experience. She draws on many years working in hospital and community mental health settings to inform her work. Alison focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety while building on each person's strengths.
She frames people as the experts in their own story and offers steady support for change. Alison uses clear, straightforward conversations to help people make sense of difficult feelings and situations.
Background and approach
She helps clients with anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. She also supports those coping with life changes, work stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her approach blends evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioural ideas with person-centred and attachment-informed thinking.
Sessions aim to identify useful steps, test different ways of responding, and build practical skills that fit everyday life. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Alison holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as a BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP.
She continues to learn and add tools from trauma-focused practice and EMDR among other approaches. This ongoing learning shapes how she adapts support for different concerns. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
People connect with her for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what suits them. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How Alison’s approaches work in online therapy
Alison uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. CBT is practical and suits worries, low mood, sleep problems and many anxiety-related difficulties.She also draws on attachment-based thinking which looks at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions now. This approach helps with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues and patterns that repeat in adult life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alison will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together she and the client agree which methods to try and review progress as they go.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face to face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or who need brief, ongoing support between sessions.
These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while using the chosen therapeutic approaches to address anxiety and related concerns.
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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
- 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
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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