About Alex
Alex Hayes is a BACP counsellor who brings a person-centred way of working to therapy. He keeps conversations clear and straightforward, and aims to walk alongside people as they make changes. He focuses on practical steps while holding a non-judgemental stance.
He has worked in counselling centres, addiction treatment settings and independent practice in Cape Town, Belgium and the United Kingdom. That mix of settings means he has experience with addiction concerns and with grief, stress and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
He also supports people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges and issues around self-esteem and life direction. Sessions are guided by what each person needs. Alex uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred work to help people notice patterns, try small changes and build new habits.
He also draws on attachment-based ideas and skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy when relationships or emotional regulation are a focus. He often helps people coping with addiction, drug and alcohol problems, compulsive behaviours, codependency and intimacy-related concerns. He is familiar with kink, BDSM and alternative sex culture and speaks openly about those topics without judgement.
Alex conducts sessions in English and works with people in the United Kingdom. He holds a BACP credential, which is listed as BACP. Therapy sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Alex commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online work. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps towards those values even when feelings are difficult. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits.He also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and on client-centred principles that keep the person’s own goals central. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and collaborate to choose or combine methods that fit the person and the problem.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for shorter check-ins or when writing helps you process. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and daily life without needing to travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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