About Alison
Alison Kennedy is a warm and approachable counsellor with 12 years of experience. She offers steady, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship pain. Her style is calm and down-to-earth, and she focuses on what will help a person feel a bit better between sessions.
Alison is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works in a person-centred way, meaning conversations stay focused on the client's needs and priorities.
Background and approach
She draws on tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people manage difficult thoughts and build coping skills. Many people bring worries about sleep, eating, parenting strain, or recovering from loss or trauma. Alison also supports people facing life transitions, chronic health challenges, and problems with self-esteem or intimacy.
Sessions often start with small, practical steps and a shared plan for what to try next. Her approach balances emotional listening with clear strategies. That can include noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing grounding or distress-tolerance skills, and identifying values to guide decisions.
Conversations are collaborative and pace is set by the client. Alison works with individuals in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. She offers sessions using video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their lives.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting tied to them, and then focus on small actions that match what matters to them. It is often used for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and teaches skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and test new behaviours. It can be helpful for sleep problems, low mood and anxiety.
Alison treats the choice of approach as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods if something does not feel helpful. The aim is to find what practically helps in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls let the work mirror in-person sessions, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or when someone prefers typing. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting around work, family and health needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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