About Alessio
Alessio Tonato is a BACP counsellor who offers talk therapy aimed at personal and professional growth. He works with people to increase self-awareness and to find different ways of responding to life’s problems. Sessions are available in English, French and Italian to meet a range of language needs.
He uses a holistic, dialogic approach that encourages open conversation and experiential exploration. That means sessions focus on how people feel in their bodies and in relationships, and on noticing patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Alessio helps clients identify unhelpful behaviours and habits and try out more useful alternatives. Many people come to him for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and relationship or intimacy-related difficulties. He also supports those dealing with family problems, trauma and abuse, anger, career crossroads and major life changes.
Additional work includes issues around attachment, abandonment, codependency, communication and infidelity. Alessio blends attachment-based thinking with mindfulness and somatic practices. He uses simple, practical exercises to build awareness and to practise new responses between sessions.
Work is paced to each person’s needs, focusing on achievable steps rather than quick fixes. He has seven years of clinical experience and holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions according to availability.
How Alessio’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns affect current relationships and self-view. Online conversations explore recurring relationship habits and help people try different ways of relating to others and themselves.Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and ground people in the present moment. Online sessions teach brief exercises that can be practised between meetings to manage anxiety and improve focus.
Somatic therapy brings attention to bodily sensations and their connection to emotion. In remote sessions this can mean guided body awareness, breathing work and movement suggestions to help release tension and notice impulses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alessio will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals. He adapts pacing and tools to individual preferences so therapy feels manageable and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel and daily life while using the approaches above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French, Italian
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