About Alexander
Alexander "Alex" Curran has worked in counselling for 16 years. He welcomes people who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, low or who are facing difficult life changes. Alex uses everyday language and aims to make the first steps feel easier for someone reaching out.
He holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which he uses to guide a steady, person-focused practice. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual, not labels or jargon.
How Alexander works
Alex keeps the pace gentle and adapts to how someone prefers to work. Alex helps with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression and bipolar difficulties. He also supports people dealing with addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges with sleep, eating or self-esteem.
He pays attention to intimacy, relationship and parenting worries as part of everyday life struggles. His approach draws on client-centred ideas alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness. Solution-focused steps and trauma-focused methods are used where helpful to make progress more quickly.
Sessions blend talking, practical strategies and simple exercises people can use between meetings. People who contact Alex can expect a warm, non-judgemental style and straightforward guidance. He aims to help people spot small changes that fit their life.
The setting is collaborative - goals are set together and adapted as things move forward.
Alexander lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Alexander works with
The areas below are the ones Alexander selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Alex adapts therapy online
Client-centred work focuses on the relationship and what the person wants to achieve. It involves open listening, reflecting what someone says and letting goals emerge at their pace. This approach helps when someone is unsure where to start or needs a gentle, supportive space.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. In online sessions this means noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and practising small behaviour changes between meetings to ease anxiety or low mood.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention exercises to reduce stress and improve focus. In remote sessions Alex can guide short practices and suggest ways to fit them into daily life to help with sleep, worry and concentration.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alex will talk with the person about their goals and try different ways of working together to see what helps. The choice is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging. Video suits fuller conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make counselling flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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