About Alison
Alison Gordon is a BACP registered counsellor working from the United Kingdom. She has 11 years of professional experience and a longer history in hospital and community mental health settings. Alison focuses on practical support for common life stresses and emotional struggles.
She aims to make the first step easier for people who are worried or overwhelmed. Alison helps with anxiety, stress, low mood and self-esteem issues. She also supports people facing relationship tensions, family conflict, parenting strain, grief and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
Her work includes areas such as addiction, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, and challenges around intimacy and identity. Her approach blends established talking therapies so sessions feel direct and down to earth. She listens, helps you notice patterns that keep problems going, and works with you to try new ways of responding.
Sessions are collaborative - Alison treats you as the expert on your life while offering tools and structure. People can expect a mix of practical strategies and reflective conversation. Techniques drawn from cognitive and behavioural methods are used alongside relational and acceptance-based ideas.
The emphasis is on small, manageable steps that fit into everyday life. Alison works with individuals from the UK and internationally in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what works best.
Starting is a short online process that leads to a booked session.
Combining approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps people clarify values and take small steps toward a life that matters to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of relating, and can help with trust, intimacy and family tensions.Alison treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will listen to your goals and try out methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can tweak the focus as work progresses so sessions remain relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as fitting sessions around work or family life and reducing travel time. Video calls let you see facial expression and body language, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or suit lower bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can work for short updates or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and to use therapy in ways that match day-to-day life.
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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
- 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
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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