Alison Fraser, BACP

Alison Fraser is a counsellor with 20 years of professional experience who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, low mood and difficult life changes. She offers a warm, empathic space without judgement where clients can talk through worries and build clearer ways of coping. Alison works with adults and young people and supports those facing trauma, bereavement, relationship strain, addictions and eating or sleeping difficulties.

She draws on a mix of straightforward practical approaches to make sense of everyday thoughts and habits. Sessions focus on noticing patterns, testing small changes and building skills that fit into daily life. Alison aims to help people develop insight and practical tools rather than adding more pressure.

Alison’s background includes long experience in public mental health services and work in schools and community settings. Her past roles covered trauma, addictions and eating-related work, and she has run a mental health charity that received local recognition.

In therapy she explains options simply and helps people choose what feels right. Conversations can cover family and parenting strains, neurodiversity, abandonment and attachment questions, career concerns and coping with long-term illness or caregiving stress.

Her professional registration is with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are conducted in English and Alison accepts international clients; please confirm current session formats before booking.

How Alison’s approaches can work in online therapy

Alison uses a blend of approaches that focus on thoughts, feelings and relationships. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours link and uses simple experiments and practical exercises to reduce anxiety or low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for life changes and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and early patterns, helping people understand how those patterns affect current connections and emotional responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alison will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and together they will try ways of working that feel helpful. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted as progress is made.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. Many people find online therapy helps fit sessions into busy days by avoiding travel, allowing check-ins during a lunch break or offering meetings when travel is difficult. It can also make it easier to use worksheets, share notes and follow up with short agreed actions between sessions. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt tools and activities so the work suits everyday life and practical needs.