Alison Spencer, BACP, NCPS

Counsellor Alison Spencer is BACP and NCPS registered and has three years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, self-esteem and depression. Sessions are conducted in English and her profile notes additional focus areas such as attachment, body image and carer stress.

Alison uses person-centred practice alongside cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic approaches. That means she listens to what matters to the individual and works with thoughts, feelings and past patterns to help make sense of current difficulties. She also offers hypnotherapy alongside talking work for people who find that helpful.

In sessions she helps people talk through practical day-to-day problems and longer standing issues. Topics she commonly covers include communication problems, control issues, isolation, guilt and midlife concerns. She also supports people coping with chronic pain, illness or disability and those dealing with separation and forgiveness.

Her style is straightforward and focused on working with the person's goals. Sessions look at immediate coping strategies and the patterns that maintain a problem. Conversations are aimed at clearer thinking and calmer feelings, and at finding steps people can try between sessions.

Alison works from a counselling perspective in the UK and uses approaches drawn from different therapies to suit each person. If you want to proceed you will be asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and to schedule a first session through the site's booking flow.

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