Alexandra Thomas
Person-centred counsellor with nursing background
About Alexandra
Alexandra Thomas trained first as a nurse and moved into counselling after years working in hospitals and nursing homes. She brings that hands-on, holistic perspective into her therapeutic work. Alexandra uses a person-centred approach and aims to make conversations straightforward and respectful.
She works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions online and by phone. Alexandra describes her practice as mainly person centred, which means she follows the client’s lead and focuses on understanding each person’s experience.
Background and approach
She also draws on other ideas when they help, tailoring sessions to what feels useful in the moment. People come to her for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy-related worries, and help coping with life changes. She has three years of recent counselling placements and additional therapeutic hours from earlier work, combining nursing and counselling experience.
Her listed credentials are BACP and NCPS, which are provided as documented registrations. Alexandra supports conversations about addiction, ADHD, trauma and abuse, body image and eating concerns, and caregiver stress among other issues. Sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or messaging to suit different needs.
Alexandra aims for a calm, practical tone and works at a steady pace to help people name problems and try small changes. She focuses on what someone wants to work on and keeps plans simple and realistic. People who prefer direct, person-led therapy are likely to find her style helpful.
Alexandra welcomes clients who want a down-to-earth counsellor who listens, reflects, and helps people build coping skills over time.
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Sessions & fees
How Alexandra’s Person-centred Approach Works Online
Alexandra mainly uses a person-centred approach online, which focuses on listening without judgement and allowing the client to guide the conversation. This approach helps when someone needs to process grief, anxiety, stress, relationship worries, or questions about self-esteem by being heard and understood.Her nursing background influences how she works in counselling, bringing a holistic, practical view to sessions. She will adapt what happens in a meeting to suit the person’s current needs, and may introduce other strategies when they seem helpful rather than following a fixed plan.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alexandra will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that suit their needs and preferences. Decisions about pace, focus and techniques are made together so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is good for a more traditional conversation; phone calls can work when internet is limited or as a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer typing or need a quick way to reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when circumstances change.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
