About Alison
Alison Fraser is a counsellor with twenty years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She offers a calm, warm approach and makes space for people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low mood or difficult life changes. She aims to help clients make sense of what they are facing and find steps that feel manageable.
Alison draws on practical talking approaches to help people who are dealing with trauma, relationship strain, bereavement, addiction issues and eating concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people affected by neurodiversity, attachment questions and parenting stress. Her work with adults and young people has included roles in the NHS and community settings as well as time running a mental health charity. In sessions she focuses on building understanding and practical tools.
Conversations cover thoughts, feelings and patterns that get in the way, and time is spent practising ways to respond differently. She uses methods that encourage values-led choices, emotion regulation and clearer communication. Alison holds BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy registration, and has combined clinical work with service development and writing.
She has run a independent practice alongside roles supporting schools and local services. People who prefer flexible contact can work with her online by phone, video, live chat or text messaging. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a first session that fits the person's needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and life direction questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, phobias and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and how early patterns shape current connections, which can help with trust, intimacy and attachment difficulties.Choosing an approach is part of the work. Alison will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest ways to proceed. Sessions are collaborative, so methods can be adapted as needs change and progress is reviewed together.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, offering flexibility for different situations. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging can fit around busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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