About Alison
Alison Baxter is a counsellor who helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure how to move forward. She listens with patience and aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Many come to her for anxiety, depression, bereavement and relationship worries, and she also works with people affected by trauma and abuse.
Alison offers both longer-term therapy and shorter counselling. She draws on several ways of working and picks what fits each person.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding what keeps problems going and trying out small changes that feel doable. Her background includes four years of practice and registration with NCPS. That experience covers common concerns such as stress, self-esteem, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, and life changes like separation or career stress.
She also supports people dealing with feelings of emptiness, isolation or shame. Alison uses approaches that look at how early bonds shape current relationships, how thoughts influence feelings, and how mindful awareness can steady intense emotion. In conversation she helps people map patterns, notice triggers and build coping steps they can use between sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and can be taken online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. International clients may be supported. To begin, someone completes a brief matching questionnaire and books a time that suits them.
How Alison’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It helps by identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying practical exercises to change them. Mindfulness-based methods teach simple ways to notice and ride out strong feelings, which can reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Alison will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative approach means plans can change as work progresses and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy here can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging can suit quick check-ins, shorter sessions or people who find typing easier than talking. These options help make therapy fit around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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