Alison Simone
Empathic client-centred counsellor focused on practical change
About Alison
Alison Simone is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration and brings nine years of clinical experience to her work. Alison meets people with empathy and clear, straightforward support.
She uses a client-centred way of working that places the person and their concerns at the heart of sessions. That approach helps people feel heard and guides conversations about what matters most to them. Alison also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to address current patterns of thinking and behaviour.
Background and approach
Her experience includes helping people with stress and anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, and anger. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, family strain, parenting pressures, relationship problems and career-related stress. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and substance-related problems.
Alison adapts the work to each individual. Sessions are shaped around practical steps and reflective conversation. She will discuss goals and try different ways of working until a helpful fit is found.
She believes change can come from both understanding the past and learning new habits now. In practice that means mixing short-term strategies with deeper discussion when needed. People who want a thoughtful, respectful approach to common life problems may find her style useful.
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.
Listed by Alison among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy starts by listening to what matters to you and shaping the conversation around your priorities. It helps when someone needs a non-directive space to talk and make sense of feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and can be helpful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating issues. Existential Therapy looks at meaning, choice and values and can support people facing big life questions or difficult transitions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk about different methods and decide together which fits your needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process means the plan can change as things move forward so the work stays relevant to you.
Online sessions using video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever you are, while phone sessions can be useful when internet bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief, flexible ways to share thoughts between longer sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
