Alison May
Collaborative counsellor for life changes and identity
About Alison
Alison May is a UK-based counsellor with six years of experience. She holds BACP registration, and she offers an inclusive, flexible approach that aims to meet people where they are. Alison treats the therapeutic relationship as a collaborative effort and encourages clients to take the lead in their story.
Alison draws on a range of approaches to suit different needs rather than a single model. She aims to make sessions practical and straightforward, helping people manage anxiety, low mood, stress and major life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating sexuality and gender questions, addiction, trauma and grief. She has professional and lived experience with LGBT+ and neurodiverse communities, and a particular interest in ADHD and autism. Alison is also an ally to people of colour and trans people, which shapes how she listens and responds in sessions.
Her work includes concerns about intimacy, self-esteem, parenting stresses, carer strain and chronic health issues. In sessions she adopts a gentle, conversational stance. She listens for patterns from past relationships and life events, and she helps people tell their story in a way that makes sense.
Practical steps and small experiments between sessions are used when they suit the person’s goals. Alison offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to give different ways to connect. International clients who speak English can work with her, and she uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Alison works with
How Alison works
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Listed by Alison among the ways they work.
Listed by Alison among the ways they work.
Listed by Alison among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Alison commonly draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. This helps when people notice repeated problems in relationships or feel easily triggered by loss or rejection.She also uses client-centred ways of working that put the person's experience at the heart of sessions. This means listening without judgement and following what the person feels is most important to talk about.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Alison will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals, and she will adapt the way she works as the work develops.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and maintain closer contact, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, and messaging or live chat can be useful for short check-ins or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, caring commitments and everyday life.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
