Alison Simone, BACP

Alison Simone is a counsellor who combines several therapy styles to meet each person's needs. She works in a respectful and compassionate way and encourages people to take small steps towards change. Alison holds BACP accreditation and brings nine years of professional experience to her practice.

Her work often focuses on common life stresses such as anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strains, addictions and problems with sleep or eating. Alison pays attention to issues linked to attachment, abandonment and codependency when they come up.

Alison uses an integrative approach, blending client-centred listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and narrative methods. She also draws on existential ideas about meaning and choice, plus mindfulness practices to help with grounding and self-awareness. Sessions aim to be collaborative and tailored to what matters most to each person.

In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new ways of responding. She can look at past experiences when that seems useful and also set clear, short-term goals when people need them. Her style is straightforward and focused on making therapy useful in everyday life.

Alison works with people from across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. She asks new clients to use the site’s continue button on this profile, complete a short matching questionnaire, then arrange sessions according to her availability.

How Alison’s approaches work online

Alison uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to guide online sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience, helping you find your own solutions and move at a comfortable pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at current thinking and behaviour patterns and introduces practical experiments to reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Alison will work with each person to identify goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those aims. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as therapy progresses.

Please confirm the specific session formats available before booking, as they are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, for example by reducing travel time or making shorter check-ins possible. It can also allow people to access support when they are living outside the therapist’s immediate area. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and mindfulness practices for use in remote sessions so the work remains practical and focused on real-life change.