About Alison
Alison Simone is a counsellor who uses an integrative approach to help people manage anxiety, stress and life changes. She holds BACP accreditation and brings nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Alison aims to meet clients where they are and tailors conversations to individual needs.
She blends approaches rather than using a single method. That means sessions can include client-centred listening, practical cognitive work, and exploration of personal meaning.
Background and approach
Alison helps people tackle problems such as trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, bereavement and addictions. She also supports concerns around parenting, family conflict, sleep and eating difficulties. Alison pays attention to patterns that repeat in someone’s life.
She helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, and works with people to try different ways of responding. Narrative elements can be used to reframe experiences, and mindfulness tools are offered to ease overwhelming moments. Conversations are practical and paced to the person’s comfort.
Parents or carers who feel worn down can find strategies for stress and caregiver strain. People dealing with attachment or abandonment worries can talk through how past experiences shape present relationships. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged with international clients.
Alison uses a collaborative style that encourages people to set goals and try steps between meetings. She recognises starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process straightforward and respectful.
Therapeutic approaches that suit online therapy
Alison commonly blends client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques when working online. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and supported; it helps when someone needs space to make sense of their feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at current thoughts and behaviours and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful patterns.The choice of approach is collaborative. Alison will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then agree which methods to try. She adapts tools and exercises so they work in remote sessions and checks in regularly to see what helps most.
Online sessions can fit around busy lives and differing needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or hands-free time is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep continuity and try different formats as therapy progresses.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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