About Alison
Alison Sowerby is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of professional experience. She offers a calm, straightforward presence for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and major life changes. Alison aims to make the first steps towards help feel manageable and clear.
She creates a welcoming space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Conversations often cover self-esteem, motivation, grief and issues around intimacy and sleep.
Background and approach
Alison uses somatic therapy alongside client-centred and cognitive behavioural approaches. She will work with clients on bodily responses, thought patterns and present-moment awareness to help people notice what keeps them stuck and make small changes. Mindfulness techniques are also offered to help with stress and grounding.
Alison is comfortable discussing faith when it matters to a person, and will include those concerns as part of sessions if the client wishes. Her aim is to support and empower people as they move towards a more fulfilling life. Practical matters such as session format and scheduling are handled through an online matching and booking process.
International clients may access work by arranging sessions that suit their time zone.
Approaches you can try online
Alison blends somatic therapy and client-centred work with elements of cognitive behavioural techniques. Somatic therapy focuses on how the body holds stress and uses gentle awareness to shift physical patterns that keep emotions stuck. Client-centred work puts your experience at the heart of sessions and aims to help you feel heard and understood. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact and offers straightforward tools to try different responses and break unhelpful cycles.Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. Alison will talk through your goals and preferences, and try different methods to see what helps most. She adapts the plan as you progress so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. This flexibility makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family and time zones. It also lets people use different formats for different needs - longer conversations by video or phone, and shorter check-ins by chat or text.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English