About Alison
Alison Kennedy is a warm, empathic counsellor with 12 years of practice. She offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship struggles. Alison meets clients where they are and helps them build practical ways to cope.
She uses a person-centred way of working that focuses on each person's values and goals. That means sessions are shaped around what matters to the individual rather than a fixed plan.
Background and approach
Alison also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and on acceptance and commitment methods to help people live more in line with their values. Her experience includes helping people manage trauma and abuse, low mood, anger and issues with intimacy.
She also supports people dealing with eating and sleeping problems, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness and life changes such as separation and bereavement. Attachment and abandonment concerns are part of her practice too. Alison holds BACP as a listed credential, which indicates her professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She practises in the United Kingdom and works with clients from a range of backgrounds. Sessions are available in English and Alison accepts international clients. She offers a mix of formats to fit different lives, and aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak openly and start making changes.
Approaches you can use online
Alison commonly blends cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy into online work. CBT looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful habits and reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on values and learning to live with difficult feelings while taking meaningful action towards what matters.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alison will talk through goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods that fit the person's needs. Sessions can be adjusted over time if something isn't working, so the plan evolves with progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different lives. Video is useful for in-depth work and reading non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Chat or messaging supports ongoing check-ins, brief reflections and people who prefer typing over speaking. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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