Alice Howard
Practical, steady support for big life changes
About Alice
Alice Howard helps people facing addictions, trauma, grief, eating concerns and LGBT-related issues. She writes plainly and listens carefully, guiding people through practical steps while recognising their existing strengths. Alice presents a calm presence and aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming.
Alice has 16 years of professional experience. She sees each person as the expert on their own life and works together with them to identify meaningful goals.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on manageable changes that fit day-to-day life rather than lengthy theory discussions. Her work draws on methods that address thoughts, feelings and relationships. She uses approaches that help people notice difficult thoughts, clarify values, and build small habits that support recovery and wellbeing.
She also pays attention to attachment patterns and how past relationships shape current difficulties. Alice supports people coping with complex situations such as adoption and foster care histories, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, body image and identity concerns, and communication or commitment difficulties. She also helps those navigating alternative sexual cultures and relationship choices when these cause distress.
Practical options including short check-ins, goal-setting and relapse planning are part of her practice. She aims to keep sessions straightforward, with clear steps to try between meetings. This approach helps people make steady progress and regain a sense of control.
What Alice works with
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Sessions & fees
How Alice's approaches work online
Alice uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for addictions, anxiety about identity, and making steady behaviour changes.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past relationships affect present reactions. This helps when patterns of trust, communication or closeness cause distress in current relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alice will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. This collaborative process means plans can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging works for people who prefer writing between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel while still keeping a steady course of support.
| 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
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
