Alison Gordon
Compassionate counsellor helping people navigate life challenges
About Alison
Alison Gordon is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 11 years of professional experience. She brings a background of working in both hospital and community mental health settings, and she uses that experience to help people find clearer ways forward. Alison works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and issues around relationships, family and parenting.
She also supports people facing grief, trauma, identity questions, and challenges with self-esteem or motivation.
Background and approach
She helps people who are managing long-term health issues, caregiving strain, or life changes such as adoption and blended family dynamics. Her approach draws on several established therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based work and Client-Centred methods. Sessions focus on practical steps, building coping skills and strengthening the things that already help you get through difficult times.
Alison aims to make therapy straightforward and relatable rather than full of jargon. She believes the person seeking help is the expert in their own life and looks to build on existing strengths. Conversations are paced to match each person, with room for reflection, skills practice, and goal setting.
The aim is to leave people feeling more able to handle day-to-day pressures and longer-term challenges. Alison values ongoing learning and has trained in a number of trauma-informed approaches, including EMDR. That background informs how she works with complex issues while keeping sessions practical and focused on meaningful change.
What Alison works with
How Alison works
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Sessions & fees
How Alison's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and focuses on practical strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It suits problems like depression, anxiety and sleep difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions; it can help with intimacy issues, communication struggles and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alison will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs and preferences. Sessions can blend techniques so the plan stays flexible and relevant to what is actually happening in someone’s life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy or geographically distant people. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation and allow for deeper discussion, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, short assignments or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit counselling into work, caregiving routines or other commitments while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
| 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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
