About Alison
Alison Fraser offers calm, practical support for people struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship strain and life changes. She is a BACP counsellor with 20 years of experience. Alison aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk openly and begin to feel steadier.
Alison draws on a broad clinical background that includes work in the NHS and roles focused on trauma, addictions and eating difficulties. She has also provided counselling and therapeutic support in schools and community settings and ran a mental health charity recognised locally for its impact.
How Alison works
Her work has been published and referenced across services. In sessions Alison helps people make sense of what’s happening and find ways to cope that suit their lives. She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help with emotions, patterns and relationships.
Practical skills are taught alongside space to reflect and process difficult experiences. Alison has experience supporting issues from bereavement, trauma and abandonment, to body image, neurodiversity and long-term health challenges. She also works with people facing parenting pressures, career uncertainty and compassion fatigue.
Her aim is to help people build steadier routines and clearer choices. Sessions are offered to people in the United Kingdom and internationally in English. Alison combines structured tools with a person-focused style so each plan is tailored to what the client needs now.
Alison lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online work
Alison commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, and on choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns, which is useful for stress, anxiety and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alison will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to fit individual goals and preferences. Decisions about pace, tools and focus are made collaboratively so therapy stays relevant to everyday needs.
Online therapy with Alison is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing and want flexible, ongoing contact. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping a steady connection with a registered or accredited professional.
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