About Alana
Alana Sully is an ACA counsellor based in Australia with six years' experience supporting people through major life challenges. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for stress, anxiety, addictions, grief and coping with life changes. Sessions are tailored to each person's goals and situation.
She aims for a straightforward, respectful approach that values the client's experience. Her background includes work in carer support, suicide prevention and disaster recovery. That experience underpins a calm, steady style when conversations get difficult.
How Alana works
In practice she blends techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy to suit the person in front of her. Alana often helps people worried about compassion fatigue, anger, low self-esteem or career stress. She also supports those facing chronic illness, hospice issues, or the emotional fallout from trauma and loss.
Practical coping skills and clearer day-to-day routines are common outcomes of her work together with clients. Sessions may include short skills practice, values-focused planning and paced emotional work. She uses simple language and avoids jargon to make each session accessible.
Alana encourages small steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. People meet with her by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging depending on what fits their life. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
She conducts sessions in English and works with each person to set realistic, measurable goals.
Alana lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Alana works with
The areas below are the ones Alana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches you can use online
Alana draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on identifying personal values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. ACT can help when worry or avoidance are holding someone back from important life areas.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT works well for anxiety, depression and stress by giving clear strategies to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss the options with each person and adapt methods to match their goals, needs and preferences. Together they will pick practical strategies and check in regularly to see what is helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or those who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and fit sessions into work, study or caregiving schedules.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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