About Alison
Alison Kennedy offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship pain. She writes in a straightforward way and focuses on what someone can do now to feel a bit steadier. Alison aims to make sessions easy to follow and useful in everyday life.
Alison has worked in the field for 12 years. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her practice blends different methods so she can match the work to the person in front of her rather than using one fixed style.
How Alison works
In sessions she listens closely and helps people notice patterns that keep causing pain. She uses exercises to build new skills for managing strong feelings, difficult thoughts and tense relationships. Conversations include goal-setting and practical steps to try between appointments.
Alison supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, low mood, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, anger and self-esteem challenges. She also works with a broad range of related issues such as attachment difficulties, caring responsibilities, chronic illness, and separation or divorce. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth.
Clients can expect a steady presence, clear explanations and suggestions that fit day-to-day life. Alison aims to help people feel more capable of coping and making choices that suit them.
Alison lists 7 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Alison's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions in that direction despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and helps people understand how those patterns show up now in intimacy and communication difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alison will talk through goals, try methods that suit the person and adjust the plan as things change. The process is collaborative - the client and therapist decide what helps most and when to switch emphasis.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep therapy going. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or not being on camera helps. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick skill practice or times when writing helps to think things through. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and help people keep momentum between appointments.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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