About Alison
Alison Faraday helps people who are struggling with relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief and major life changes. She also supports people facing trauma, parenting stress, career uncertainty, and concerns around eating or sleeping. Alison works in English and accepts international clients from the United Kingdom.
She takes a straightforward, calm approach in sessions. Conversations are practical and focused on what feels most urgent for the person. Alison listens for patterns in relationships and daily life, then suggests small steps people can try between meetings.
How Alison works
Alison uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current responses. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours.
Client-centred work keeps the person’s priorities central to the process. Sessions often combine talking about recent problems with looking at longer-term themes. Alison encourages people to notice what works for them and to build routines that support mental health.
She offers a steady, non-judgemental presence while helping clients set clear, manageable goals. Her background includes three years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is noted as BACP.
Practical matters such as session formats and scheduling are arranged when someone starts the process.
Alison lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Alison works with
The areas below are the ones Alison selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Alison commonly uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationship experiences shape current feelings and reactions. This approach can help when trust, intimacy or repeated hurt keeps coming up in relationships. She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, known as CBT, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours to reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful cycles.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work itself. Alison explores a person’s needs, goals and preferences together with them. She adjusts methods as progress is made so the plan stays relevant and practical for everyday life.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls make it possible to have a fuller conversation similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions work well when a quieter environment or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, written reflections, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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