About Alison
Alison Sowerby is a counsellor registered with the BACP who has eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on practical support for stress and anxiety, low mood, grief, sleep problems and issues that affect self-esteem. Alison aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what is worrying them without fear of judgement.
She uses straightforward, person-focused work that helps people make sense of difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual's needs. Alison can include conversations about faith and Bible matters when that is important to the person she is seeing. Over her career she has supported people with trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar and long-term health challenges, and with relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
She also helps with practical pressures such as parenting stress, caring responsibilities and the strain of illness. Her approach draws on client-centred listening alongside cognitive and mindfulness strategies to help change unhelpful patterns. Alison uses techniques that bring attention to the body when that feels relevant, helping people notice how emotions show up physically and learn ways to regulate them.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to fit different routines and needs. She works in English and accepts international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the available times.
Sessions are provided via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How Alison's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on warm, non-judgemental listening and helping people feel heard. It is useful for building trust, exploring feelings and deciding what matters most to work on.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps people notice patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going and then try out small, practical changes. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce rumination and improve focus on the present moment. These techniques can support stress management and emotional regulation.
Choosing the best mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what the person hopes to change, try different techniques in session and agree what feels most helpful going forward.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls work well for a fuller conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and need less internet bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can help with quick check-ins, notes between sessions or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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