About Alison
Alison May is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP in her profile. Alison aims to meet people where they are and takes a collaborative approach to therapy.
She describes therapy as a team process and focuses on empowering clients to tell their own story. Alison uses an integrative style and draws on different approaches to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
This means sessions can feel flexible and shaped around what a client finds most helpful. Alison has worked with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief and coping with major life changes. She also lists relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting and family matters, self-esteem, stress and compassion fatigue among her focus areas.
Her additional interests include ADHD and autism, issues around sexuality and gender, adoption and foster care, and ageing and caregiving stress. She identifies as a strong ally to people of colour and trans people and reports lived and professional experience with LGBT+ and neurodiverse clients. Sessions can be arranged online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Practical details such as cost vary with location and a subscription model is used, which can be cancelled at any time. To start, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current trust and intimacy. It can help people who struggle with attachment issues, commitment worries or difficulty feeling safe in relationships.Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of sessions and follows their pace and priorities. This approach is useful for people seeking a non-judgemental space to talk about anxiety, self-esteem or life transitions.
Alison will work with each person to find the best approach for their needs. Together they discuss goals and try different methods when needed, so the therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single style.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical options. Video lets people see facial cues and body language, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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