About me
💚 Online Trauma Therapy for both younger and older adults with a therapist who truly understands trauma
🌱 Registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
💚 7pm availability throughout the week (9am-8pm on Wednesdays)
🌱 Personalised, friendly, human approach
💚 £35 sessions for key workers, £50 standard fee
🌱 Fully Insured
🙅🏻♂️ No passive, directionless therapy
Have you imagined what it would be like to feel unstuck from your flashbacks, nightmares and your feelings of shame? I can help you achieve this. I am Alan, a trauma therapist who can help you be free of trauma symptoms so that you can live a fulfilling life and function the way you’ve always wanted to, because it could be time for us to take back your life and have you live the way you’ve wanted to live.
Clients often come to me with a range of trauma symptoms that they feel chained to. Through a range of techniques and tools, alongside a human connection that prioritises genuineness, acceptance and empathy, my clients often come away from therapy feeling better able to function, maintain relationships and reduce their trauma symptoms
My background is heavily grounded in trauma therapy. After spending 10 weeks training on an additional training course, which focussed on therapeutically supporting survivors of sexual harm, I volunteered as a sexual trauma therapist in a charity that specialised in supporting survivors of sexual harm.
How I can help:
As a therapist, I use a personalised, trauma-informed approach to therapy by using a range of different therapies such as CBT, Gestalt and person centred counselling. I also use two variations of the flash technique to process disturbing memories in different ways, which offers clients the opportunity to rapidly and painlessly process disturbing memories.
What can be achieved in therapy with me?:
- Improve your feelings of safety in relationships
- Improve your intimacy
- Tame your shame
- Free yourself of trauma symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares and dissociation
- Shift unhelpful beliefs about yourself, others and the world
Clients who work with me tend to say a few things about why they picked me:
1) The elephant in the room is that I look young! Which for some clients who need safety, automatically feel safer
2) I offer warmth, compassion, genuineness and understanding from the first minute of the initial call
I offer a free 30 minute initial consultation to help you get a feel for me and whether or not I am the therapist for you. I am always happy to answer any questions about me and my approach, so feel free to enquire about therapy with me via email!
Training, qualifications & experience
Degree:
BSc Counselling, Coaching and Psychological interventions - 2:1 - The University of Lancashire
MSc Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy - to start October 2026 - University of Lancashire
Additional Courses:
- The Flash Technique - A painless, quick method to process distressing memories, including traumatic memories.
- Predictive Processing Flash - A painless method to rapidly update disturbing memories to inform the nervous system that you are safe
- Working With Shame - Carolyn Spring
- Working Therapeutically With Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Supporting Male Survivors of Sexual Harm - BACP
Experience: (Most recent first)
Private Practice, 2025 - present - providing trauma-informed therapy to a range of clients, experiencing a wide range of presenting issues
HA Wisdom Wellbeing, 2025 - present (Digital Wellbeing Counsellor) - Supporting clients via a live chat platform as well as video chat
HA Wisdom Wellbeing, 2024 - 2025 (Wellbeing Counsellor/case management administrator) - Previously supporting clients on the helpline, I now support a network of affiliated counsellors whilst maintaining my own client load.
Trust House Lancashire, 2023-2024 (Counsellor) - Counselling support for survivors of sexual harm in all forms.
Emotional wellbeing group, 2021-2023 (Counsellor) - Counselling support for people living with common mental health problems, offering in the moment support via a live chat service.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£35.00 - £50.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer counselling sessions for £35 for bluelight workers, NHS staff and carehome staff
When I work
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My availability will drop from September as I will be studying further
