About Alison
Alison Simone is a counsellor with nine years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration and focuses on practical support for people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Alison aims to meet people where they are and keep sessions straightforward and steady.
She uses a mix of approaches chosen to fit each person's situation. Sessions often focus on current problems and small, manageable steps that make day-to-day life easier.
Background and approach
When useful, she looks at how past experiences still affect thoughts and reactions now. Alison draws on client-centred work to create a respectful, listening space. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) tools are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new ways of behaving.
Narrative and existential ideas help people make sense of their story and find meaning after difficult events. She has particular experience supporting people facing trauma and abuse, relationship and family strain, parenting pressures, addiction issues, grief, and changes related to illness or caregiving. Alison also helps with eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, and career-related stress.
Sessions are guided by what each person needs rather than a fixed formula. Alison explains options, suggests practical exercises, and adapts plans as progress is made. She encourages small steps and realistic goals so people can notice change over time.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centred work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathy, and helps clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going and teaches practical techniques to test new ways of responding. Existential therapy helps people examine meaning, choice and personal values when facing change or loss, guiding reflective conversations about what matters.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will discuss options in early sessions and will work together with the client to pick methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. Plans can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility. Video mirrors face-to-face conversation and suits longer sessions and deeper work. Phone calls can fit a quick check-in or be easier when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, homework check-ins, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it possible to keep continuity of care and fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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