About Alison
Alison Holder is a counsellor and psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom with ten years' experience. She supports people facing anxiety, stress, loss and difficult relationship issues. Alison aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for someone who feels overwhelmed or stuck.
Her approach starts by building a trusting connection. Alison offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through painful memories and current worries. She listens for what matters most and helps identify small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Alison draws on work with trauma, bereavement, addictions and emotional regulation. She uses methods that look at attachment patterns and past experiences to make sense of repeated relationship problems. Sessions may include talking through difficult events and learning ways to reduce emotional overwhelm.
Clients can expect a steady, person-centred style. Alison encourages practical steps alongside exploring feelings. She helps people test new ways of relating and coping, and reviews progress at a pace that suits each person.
For those facing acute distress or complex trauma, Alison offers trauma-focused methods, including eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing. She explains options clearly and discusses what might help most. The aim is to return some control and build clearer ways forward.
Alison works in English and accepts international clients. If someone wants a therapist who combines compassionate listening with structured trauma work, she can discuss the best next steps.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Alison uses attachment-based work to look at how early connections shape current relationships. This approach helps people notice patterns in how they attach to others and practise new ways of relating that feel safer and more balanced.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to explore how past experiences influence present feelings and reactions. That helps when issues recur without an obvious reason and when someone wants to understand hidden drivers of their anxiety or relationship tensions.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Alison will talk through these methods and together with the client decide what feels most helpful. She adapts the plan as therapy progresses, checking in about goals and what is or isn't working.
Online formats offer practical benefits for this work. Video calls let Alison and the client talk face-to-face for deeper conversations. Phone sessions are useful when video is difficult or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflections and flexible communication between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work across different situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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