About Alexandra
Alexandra Thomas trained originally as a nurse and moved into counselling after years of hands-on healthcare work. She combines that background with therapeutic practice to offer a gentle, person-focused way of talking things through. Alexandra is based in the United Kingdom and works with adults seeking help for everyday and complex difficulties.
Her nursing experience involved hospital and nursing-home settings, which shaped a holistic view of wellbeing. That perspective informs how she listens and responds in sessions.
How Alexandra works
She completed a Level 4 counselling qualification and has three years of recent placements that led to that award. Alexandra follows a Client-Centred Therapy approach, so sessions centre on a person's own priorities and pace. She also draws on other methods when they help move a person forward.
Conversations tend to focus on practical coping, clearer thinking, and emotional understanding rather than jargon. Her three years of recent counselling placements form part of roughly nine hundred hours of therapy practice when counting earlier experience. She has worked with adults, students, young people and women in different settings.
Alexandra works from a independent practice and offers in-person, online and telephone sessions. Typical concerns she helps with include stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression, along with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and body image difficulties, ADHD and career or life changes.
She also supports people facing long-term illness, caregiving strain, adoption and attachment questions, and related challenges.
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What Alexandra works with
The areas below are the ones Alexandra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches and how they translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of each session. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps a person make sense of their feelings. This approach suits worries like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns and self-esteem issues because it builds understanding and personal insight.Alexandra also combines elements from other helpful approaches when needed to meet a person's goals. Deciding which methods to use is collaborative - she will talk with each person about what feels right and adjust the way she works as therapy progresses. That means the approach can shift if someone needs more structure or practical tools at different times.
Online therapy with Alexandra uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging so people can choose what fits their day. Video is useful for deeper conversations and non-verbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows a paced typed conversation, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or times when writing is easier. These options improve flexibility and make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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