About Alex
Alex Nelson is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of practice. She holds BACP accreditation, which means she is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Alex focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and depression and on working through trauma and grief.
She believes people know their own stories and brings a respectful, curious style to sessions. Conversations are straightforward and paced to the person's needs.
How Alex works
Alex aims to help people build confidence and find practical ways to cope with daily pressures. In sessions she draws on several approaches, including talking in ways that look at patterns from the past, and gentle cognitive tools to spot and change unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness exercises are used when people want help with staying calmer in the moment.
Attachment ideas help when relationships and feelings of abandonment are part of the difficulty. Her work also covers a wide range of related concerns. These include body image and eating issues, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, addiction, relationship endings, blended family challenges, and feelings of emptiness.
Alex supports people dealing with cancer, divorce, domestic violence, and commitment worries. Sessions are designed to be collaborative. People are invited to set goals and move at a pace that feels manageable.
The focus is on clear, practical steps that can be used between sessions to make small, steady changes.
Alex lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Alex works with
The areas below are the ones Alex selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can try online
Alex uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviour, which can be useful for worries about abandonment and connection. Client-centred work focuses on listening and making the session about what matters to the person, helping them find their own direction and build confidence. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, offers simple, practical tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding to anxiety and low mood.Choosing which approach to use is part of the work and happens together. Alex will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt the way she works so it fits each person's needs. The aim is a collaborative plan rather than a fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, care duties, or mobility limits while keeping the focus on steady practical progress.
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