About Alexandra
Alexandra Squires is a counsellor who uses a compassionate, client-centred approach to help people manage stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She holds BACP accreditation and has worked in the UK for 11 years. Alexandra focuses on practical steps that clients can use in everyday life.
She creates a calm space where thoughts and emotions can be talked about without judgment. Sessions look at what matters most to the person and what gets in the way of change.
Background and approach
Alexandra encourages small, manageable actions between meetings to build confidence and momentum. Alexandra draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking. She also uses mindfulness practices to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve focus.
When helpful, she explores deeper patterns from past experiences in a psychodynamic way to understand repeated relationship dynamics. Her experience includes supporting people with relationship difficulties, eating concerns, body image worries, abandonment and attachment issues. She has also supported those facing chronic illness, caregiver stress and the strain of divorce or separation.
Alexandra listens for the practical problems under these struggles and works with clients to find realistic solutions. Sessions are tailored to each person’s pace and priorities. Alexandra aims to make the therapeutic process straightforward and useful, so people can notice real shifts in daily life and feel more able to cope.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Alexandra uses client-centred methods that prioritise what matters to the person in front of her. That means sessions begin with the client’s goals and the pace is set by them, while the counsellor reflects and asks questions to clarify what will help most. This approach is helpful for people who want a supportive space to talk and to make practical changes.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT offers concrete tools to test unhelpful thoughts and to try new behaviours, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood. Mindfulness work is used alongside these methods to build present-moment awareness and to reduce reactivity to difficult feelings.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Alexandra will discuss options and tailor techniques to each person’s needs, goals and preferences rather than imposing a single method. Together they decide which tools to try and which to adapt over time.
Online sessions include video calls, phone appointments, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit people who prefer writing or need flexibility. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring roles or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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