Alison Kennedy
Compassionate counsellor guiding steady, practical change
About Alison
Alison Kennedy is a warm, empathic counsellor with 12 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief and depression. She offers steady support for those dealing with relationship pain, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, and the everyday strain of parenting, eating or sleeping problems. Her style is calm and person-focused, aimed at making practical changes that fit each person's life.
Alison is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
She works in an integrative way, drawing on several well-known approaches to match what a client needs in the moment. Sessions are about talking things through, learning simple tools, and trying new ways of coping between meetings. Her practice also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties and blended family challenges.
She supports people dealing with chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, body image and codependency concerns. Divorce, separation and commitment worries are included in the range she helps with. Alison uses methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy alongside attachment-based and client-centred work.
This mix helps with emotion regulation, changing unhelpful patterns and building clearer communication. The focus is practical - making steady progress one step at a time. Sessions are offered in English and Alison works with clients in the United Kingdom as well as international clients.
She keeps explanations plain and sessions straightforward so people can fit therapy into busy lives.
What Alison works with
How Alison works
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Sessions & fees
How Alison’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress and adapting to big life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavioural steps to reduce symptoms like low mood or anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, aiming to build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alison will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try based on their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques during sessions and checks in to see what helps, so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy with Alison offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow longer, face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit those who prefer typing, and messaging supports brief check-ins between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while still working through relationships, trauma and everyday stress.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
