About Alison
Alison May is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom who combines several therapeutic approaches to meet people where they are. She holds BACP registration, which appears as BACP, and brings six years of professional experience to her work. Alison aims to work collaboratively with clients and treats therapy as a team process.
She is an ally to people of colour and to trans people, and she draws on lived and professional experience supporting LGBT+ and neurodiverse clients.
How Alison works
Alison helps with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, addiction, trauma and bereavement. She also supports people facing life changes, stress, parenting worries, intimacy-related issues and challenges linked to ADHD. Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, chronic illness, body image and carer stress.
In sessions she listens first, then shapes a plan with each person. That plan draws on attachment-based, psychodynamic and narrative ideas alongside client-centred principles. Alison aims to help people understand patterns from their past, tell their story differently, and find practical next steps for day-to-day life.
People meet her for one-to-one work by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. She accepts clients from outside the UK as well as locally. Fees vary with location and are charged through a cancellable subscription model.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules sessions around therapist availability. Alison seeks to create an open space where people can explore change at a pace that suits them.
Alison lists 6 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.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Alison draws on attachment-based thinking to help people notice how early relationships influence current patterns. This approach can be useful for addressing relationship difficulties, attachment concerns and intimacy-related issues.She also uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening and responding to what the person says. That method helps people feel heard, clarify their goals and decide what changes they want to make.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alison will talk through different ways of working and agree on what fits the person’s needs, goals and preferences. She aims to adapt methods as the relationship develops so the plan stays relevant.
Online formats allow sessions to fit around life commitments. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversations and reading non-verbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer a flexible option for people who prefer typing or want regular brief contact between longer sessions.
These remote options can make it easier to attend from different locations and at varied times. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists can offer the same reflective work online as they do in person, while making scheduling and access more flexible.
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