- Years in practice
- 20
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Alison
Alison Fraser is a counsellor with 20 years of experience working with adults and young people. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where parents can talk through stress, anxiety, low mood and challenges around parenting. She makes practical steps feel manageable and helps people find clearer direction for daily life.
Alison draws on a mix of well-known approaches to tailor sessions to each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people focus on values and small actions.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to spot thinking patterns that make anxiety and low mood worse. Attachment-based ideas inform work around relationship patterns and the effects of early hurts. Her background includes many years in the NHS as a mental health therapist and roles addressing trauma, addiction and eating difficulties.
She has also worked in schools and community settings supporting young people and parents. Alison previously ran a mental health charity that received local recognition and has published work on clinical practice. In sessions she combines practical strategies with empathetic listening.
That might mean setting manageable goals, trying simple behavioural experiments, or working with family dynamics that affect daily life. Parents often find this approach useful when juggling childcare, work and their own wellbeing. Alison works with issues such as bereavement, neurodiversity, relationship problems, self-esteem, anger and grief.
She also supports people dealing with long-term health problems, adoption and attachment concerns, and the pressures of caregiving. Her practice aims to make change feel realistic and steady rather than rushed.
What Alison works with
Everything Alison lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Alison helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Alison lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Alison’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify what matters to them and take small meaningful actions. Online work can focus on values-based goals and brief exercises to practise between sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together; digital sessions are well suited to reviewing patterns, trying simple behavioural experiments and tracking small changes over time.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and then choose or combine methods that feel right. This collaborative process means plans can be adjusted as needs shift during therapy.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, journalling between sessions or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity while juggling school runs, work and family life.
Questions people ask about Alison
What kinds of concerns can be raised in sessions?
Common topics include stress, anxiety, low mood, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, addictions and trauma-related problems.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Sessions combine empathic listening with practical tools. Techniques from ACT, CBT and attachment-based work are used to set small goals and change unhelpful patterns.
What experience does the counsellor have?
She has 20 years of professional experience, having worked in the NHS, schools and community services, and in a independent practice for adults and young people.
What credentials and region are listed?
The counsellor is registered with BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Work can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on what suits the client.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, then arrange sessions according to the therapist's schedule.
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