About Alan
Alan Williams is a PACFA counsellor who helps people facing relationship strain, phobias, grief, parenting challenges and stress. He sees adults and couples and focuses on restoring connection, managing triggers, and handling life changes. He writes plainly and works collaboratively to find what will actually help you day to day.
Alan looks at problems through relationships and attachment. He uses Imago Relationship Therapy to guide couples through structured conversations that rebuild trust and improve emotional closeness.
Background and approach
He also uses a tapping-based method to reduce phobic reactions and distress around specific triggers. His background includes 19 years of clinical work, 15 years as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, and long experience with workplace counselling programs. This mix gives him practical skills for parenting arrangements, navigating separation, and coping with high-conflict situations.
People come to Alan for help with grief and loss, including matters around end-of-life decisions, and for complicated family situations such as adoption or donor-conception discoveries. He helps individuals and couples identify patterns, practise clearer communication, and set realistic steps forward. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat or messaging.
He works with adults only and does not accept international clients. To begin, follow the platform steps to match with him and arrange a time that suits you.
How relationship work and phobia clearing translate to online therapy
Imago Relationship Therapy focuses on structured, guided conversations between partners. It teaches mirrored listening and intentional dialogue so people can say what they need and feel heard. This helps with disconnection, recurring fights and rebuilding emotional closeness.Alan's phobia work uses a refined tapping technique to reduce automatic distress when a specific trigger appears. The approach is practical and stepwise - identify the trigger, practise regulated exposure with tapping, and notice the intensity change over a few sessions. It aims to reduce the immediate panic response to known triggers.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Alan will talk through your goals, preferences and the issues you bring, then suggest whether Imago dialogues, tapping work or a mix is best. The decision is collaborative and adjusted as you progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for guided couple dialogues and real-time interaction. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and messaging suit shorter reflections or flexible check-ins between sessions. These options make therapy more accessible and allow practical steps to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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