Alison Sowerby, BACP

Alison Sowerby is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She offers support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and difficulties with motivation. Alison creates a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through what feels hard. She is a Christian and will include discussion of bible matters if that is important to a client.

With eight years of experience, Alison has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma, ADHD, depression and relationship or intimacy-related difficulties. She also helps people coping with chronic illness, cancer, ageing and caregiver stress. Her work covers practical day-to-day problems such as sleep disturbance, anger and communication issues as well as deeper themes like abandonment, attachment and forgiveness.

Alison draws on client-centred principles, cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness and somatic approaches. In sessions she listens first, then offers short exercises, gentle reflection and practical tools to try between meetings. Clients and therapist agree on small steps to test what helps in everyday life.

Sessions move at a client’s pace and focus on clear, achievable goals when that is helpful. Alison aims to support people through life changes, loss and ongoing health challenges, and to help rebuild confidence and coping skills. If you would like to explore working together, follow the site’s process to start the matching and scheduling steps.

How Alison’s approaches translate to online counselling

Alison uses client-centred ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques in her work. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and reflecting back what a person says to help them find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and offers practical exercises to try between sessions.

The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which approach suits each person best. Early sessions are used to understand needs, set small goals and try methods to see what fits. This makes it easier to change direction if a different balance of talking, mindfulness or body-based work feels more helpful.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit meetings into busy days, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that helps. It can also support people dealing with health challenges by making attendance more manageable while trying different tools together.