About Alison
Alison Gordon is a BACP-registered counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 11 years of professional experience. She began work in hospital and community mental health settings, which led her into therapeutic practice. She draws on a range of approaches and a steady interest in learning to help people manage difficult moments.
Alison keeps the room simple and practical. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is getting in the way now and on steps that can help reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Her background includes work with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction-related concerns, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and self-esteem. She also supports people facing parenting strain, chronic health challenges, career transitions and the strain of caring roles.
Additional focus areas include attachment concerns, adoption and foster care, autism and body image worries. Therapeutic methods she draws on include Somatic therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centred practice and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. These approaches are used to help people notice how feelings show up in the body, clarify values, change unhelpful thinking patterns and increase self-awareness.
People who come to Alison often want down-to-earth guidance and a collaborative space to work through problems. She works with adults and also accepts international clients. Sessions are offered in English and use flexible online formats to fit different schedules.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Somatic-informed therapy invites attention to physical sensations and how emotions appear in the body. It can help people notice tension, grounding and breath patterns and use simple body-based techniques to reduce overwhelm, which is useful for anxiety, stress and trauma-related distress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and taking small committed actions towards those values. It helps when people feel stuck or avoidant and supports coping with painful thoughts and feelings while moving forward in life.
Client-Centred therapy creates a non-judgemental space where the counsellor listens closely and follows the person’s pace. This approach is useful for building self-understanding and confidence when facing relationship, self-esteem or life transition issues.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals and preferences, and will try different methods in a collaborative way until something feels helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. These options allow people to join from different places, use shorter check-ins when needed, and keep a consistent rhythm of support without travelling to appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English