About Allison
Allison Abaza is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing relationship strain, difficult life changes, and the after-effects of trauma and abuse. Allison sees clients who want practical ways to cope and clearer thinking about their next steps.
She believes people are the experts in their own stories and builds sessions around each person's strengths. Sessions are conversational and collaborative.
Background and approach
Her style aims to make things feel more manageable rather than overwhelming. Allison uses client-centred methods to create a calm space for reflection. She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help reduce worry and improve present-moment awareness.
Her psychodynamic approach looks at patterns from the past that may be shaping current feelings and relationships. With three years of professional experience and a BACP registration, Allison offers straightforward support without jargon. She helps people who struggle with panic, mood problems, and feelings of isolation to find clearer ways forward.
She also works with issues like attachment, caregiver stress, communication breakdowns and financial worries. Sessions can be arranged online for people in the UK and internationally. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a time that suits them.
Allison aims to make early sessions focused and practical, so clients leave with small, doable steps.
How Allison uses therapeutic approaches online
Allison uses client-centred therapy to put the person's experience at the heart of each session. That means she listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them make choices and set goals that fit their life.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple practices for calming intense worry and reducing panic. These techniques focus on breathing, grounding and noticing thoughts without getting swept up by them, which can help with anxiety and stress.
Psychodynamic ideas are used to gently look at long-standing patterns that affect current relationships and emotions. This can help people understand why they repeat certain behaviours and open up new ways of relating to themselves and others.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Allison treats this as a collaborative process and will help clients test what feels most useful. She tailors methods to individual goals, preferences and how well a particular way of working fits.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity and fit therapy around work and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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