Alison Kennedy, BACP

Counsellor Alison Kennedy is a BACP member with 12 years of experience working with people from a range of backgrounds in the United Kingdom. She helps with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and family-related issues. She also supports people dealing with eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem and coping with life changes.

Alison uses a person-centred base and draws on several approaches to suit each person. Sessions focus on what matters now, with practical ideas to manage difficult feelings and patterns. She listens to how problems affect day-to-day life and helps people try small changes between sessions.

Her work often includes strategies from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to tackle unhelpful thoughts and to clarify values and goals. Attachment-based ideas are used where early relationships affect current patterns. Dialectical behaviour therapy techniques can help with emotion regulation and coping skills.

In sessions Alison keeps language clear and direct. She helps people name the problem, work out small steps and practise new ways of responding. Conversations are paced to fit each person, with an emphasis on steady progress rather than quick fixes.

People can expect sessions that focus on everyday problems and practical coping. She supports those managing chronic illness, bereavement, separation, codependency and other specific concerns listed in her profile. Work with Alison is collaborative and focused on useful, manageable change.

How Alison uses psychological approaches in online counselling