Alison Bubbins, BACP

Alison Bubbins offers help for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, addiction and relationship concerns. She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, sleeping problems, low self-esteem, career changes and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar. Alison is comfortable discussing intimacy, kink and sexuality matters, and she welcomes LGBT clients.

Alison works in a down-to-earth and straightforward way. She aims to create a space where people can be themselves without judgement. Sessions are collaborative and shaped around each person’s needs rather than a fixed plan.

She practises integratively, drawing on person-centred ideas, cognitive behavioural approaches and broader psychotherapeutic work. That means Alison listens for what is most useful and adapts methods to suit the issue and the person. Practical tools are combined with chance to talk things through and to reflect on patterns.

Alison has three years of clinical experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, dissociation, domestic violence, and substance use.

Sessions are offered in English and available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to availability.

Alison aims for an honest, accepting approach and uses humour where it feels helpful. Her focus is on creating a steady, respectful space so people can make practical changes and feel more like themselves.

How Alison’s approaches work online

Alison uses person-centred ways of working that focus on listening and creating acceptance. This approach helps people feel understood and makes it easier to talk about difficult subjects such as trauma, identity or relationship concerns.

She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques which provide practical tools to manage anxiety, mood changes and unhelpful thoughts. These techniques are useful for building routines, tackling sleep problems and managing low mood with clear, step-by-step strategies.

Finding the right way of working is a collaborative process. Alison will check in about what helps, what doesn’t, and adapt methods to match a person’s goals and preferences. Together they decide whether more practical tools, talking and reflection, or a mix of both is best.

Online sessions offer flexibility and can fit around busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging can be used for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care when schedules or locations change and to choose the format that feels most comfortable.