Alison Spencer, BACP, NCPS

Alison Spencer is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She has three years of professional experience and works with people who are facing stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties. Alison aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared and understood.

She helps clients coping with grief and loss, as well as those who want to build confidence and motivation. Her work also addresses self-esteem, midlife questions and issues around isolation and loneliness. Alison supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress and concerns about body image.

Her practice draws on person-centred principles alongside cognitive and psychodynamic approaches and hypnotherapy. That mix means sessions often focus on understanding patterns, building helpful thinking habits and exploring how past experiences affect present feelings. Alison tailors the way she works to each person rather than using a single method for everyone.

Sessions typically involve listening, reflective questions and practical steps to try between meetings. She encourages small, achievable changes and checks in about what is or isn’t working. Clients can expect a straightforward, compassionate style aimed at steady progress.

Alison welcomes conversations about relationship strains, control issues, abandonment worries, guilt and forgiveness. She also supports people facing communication problems, divorce and separation, impulsivity and questions of life purpose. Work is carried out in English.

How Alison’s approaches work online

Alison uses a person-centred way of working that focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. That helps people feel heard and begin to make practical changes for stress, low mood and relationship worries.

She also uses cognitive-style techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and develop different ways of responding. This can be useful for anxiety, low self-esteem and motivation. In addition, psychodynamic ideas are used to gently explore how past experiences may shape current feelings and relationship patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alison will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then try methods that fit the person and the issue. That collaborative decision-making helps tailor sessions to what the client needs most.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow a full conversational session when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, quick reflections or days when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, family and health commitments.