Alexandra Grimes
Warm, practical online counsellor
About Alexandra
Alexandra Grimes works with people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She meets individuals who are dealing with grief, relationship strain, low mood, addiction concerns, or major life changes. Alexandra speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps easier to take.
She draws on five years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential. Alexandra works online from her home practice and prefers video calls so clients can see her face, though phone, chat and messaging are also available.
Background and approach
She keeps sessions calm and focused on what matters to each person. Her approach centres on the person rather than a rigid method. That means the conversation follows the client's priorities and moves at their pace.
Practical tools from cognitive behavioural ideas are blended with a listening stance that looks at deeper patterns that shape feelings and choices. Alexandra tailors the plan to each person's needs. She will help identify small steps to try between sessions and check what does and does not help.
People often work on stress, sleep, eating or concentration problems alongside relationship and family concerns. She also supports people coping with identity and intimacy questions, addictions, ADHD and longer-term conditions such as chronic pain or cancer-related stress. Sessions are delivered in English and Alexandra accepts clients from outside the United Kingdom.
The style is warm, non-judgemental and collaborative.
What Alexandra works with
How Alexandra works
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Listed by Alexandra among the ways they work.
Listed by Alexandra among the ways they work.
Listed by Alexandra among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Alexandra's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and putting the client's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist follows the person's lead, offers empathy, and helps them discover their own solutions to problems such as low mood, relationship concerns and identity questions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It offers simple, practical techniques to reduce anxiety or manage changing routines, and gives tasks to try between sessions to build new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alexandra will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods to suit each person. That collaborative decision helps shape whether sessions focus more on listening, exploring past patterns, or using short-term strategies.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls support face-to-face connection and relationship building, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, and live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options offer flexibility and help people keep therapy consistent despite work, travel or family commitments.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
