Alison Faraday
Relationship and life changes support
About Alison
Alison Faraday helps people who are struggling with relationships, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief and other life stresses. She offers calm, practical support for parenting concerns, intimacy issues and challenges around work and career. Alison works with people facing trauma, chronic health problems, ADHD and identity-related worries.
She is BACP registered and practises from the United Kingdom. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused. Conversations centre on what the client wants to change and small steps that can make a difference.
Background and approach
Alison uses a mix of talking therapies to suit each person rather than one fixed method. Her approach pays attention to early attachments and how they shape current relationships. This can help when people wrestle with abandonment, adoption, foster care or patterns that repeat in close connections.
Sessions also draw on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and try out new behaviours. Alison brings three years of professional experience to her work and has supported people dealing with family problems, infidelity, codependency and forgiveness. She also helps those coping with eating or sleeping difficulties, chronic pain or caregiver strain.
The focus is on practical, manageable changes rather than long lists of theory. When someone begins, Alison and the client agree clear goals and a way to measure progress. She adapts the work as needs shift, using solution-focused techniques for immediate problems and psychodynamic ideas when understanding history helps.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, chat or messaging.
What Alison works with
How Alison works
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Sessions & fees
How Alison's approaches work online
Alison draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people who struggle with abandonment, trust or repeating relationship problems to make different choices now. Client-centred therapy is also part of her practice and puts the person's priorities at the centre of each session, offering a non-judgemental space to talk through feelings and decisions.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Alison will discuss goals and preferences with the person and agree which methods to use. She may combine short-term, solution-focused steps with deeper exploration when history matters, and will review progress together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to schedule therapy around work, caring duties or travel and to keep continuity when circumstances change.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
