Alana Black
Calm trauma-aware counselling for everyday life
About Alana
Alana Black is a BACP counsellor who combines trauma-aware care with attachment thinking and mindfulness. She draws on her four years of experience across the charity sector, public health services and independent practice to help people manage stress, anxiety and low mood. Her style is calm and direct.
Sessions focus on what matters now and on small, practical steps. She aims to make conversations feel straightforward and manageable, even when topics are difficult to bring up.
Background and approach
Alana helps people who are wrestling with relationship strains, low self-esteem and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with depression, perfectionism, or feelings of emptiness and isolation. Common additional concerns she works with include abandonment, communication and control issues, body image, codependency, dissociation, and family problems.
Her practice uses elements drawn from trauma therapies, mindfulness and attachment theory. That means sessions might include grounding techniques, noticing patterns in relationships, and simple mindfulness exercises to reduce stress. Alana adapts her approach to each person and checks in about what feels helpful.
People who choose her often want practical ways to cope and clearer thinking about relationships. She offers a compassionate, respectful space and aims to support steady progress toward realistic goals.
What Alana works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches you can expect and how online therapy helps
Alana draws on trauma-informed methods to help people manage overwhelming feelings. That can include grounding exercises and practical steps to reduce panic, dissociation or intense stress reactions. These techniques focus on immediate ways to feel steadier and more present.She also uses attachment-informed thinking to look at patterns in close relationships. This approach helps people notice recurring interaction habits, understand why they feel unsafe or disconnected, and try different ways of relating that feel better over time.
Finding the right approach is something to do together. The therapist will ask about your goals and preferences and suggest options to try. Work is collaborative and reviewed regularly so methods can be changed if they are not helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for a full conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone calls suit people who prefer not to be on camera or need lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to have shorter, flexible contacts during a busy week. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, studying or family life while keeping continuity of care.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
