About me
Hey, I’m Alex! I work with LGBTQIA+ folk who have spent most of their lives adapting, minimising and self-monitoring to stay safe, belong, or be accepted. Over time, this can create a painful distance from your emotions, needs, desires, and sense of self. In therapy together, we can create a space where all parts of you are welcome and affirmed!
Through deeper emotional exploration, self-acceptance, and authentic expression, therapy becomes an opportunity to reconnect with yourself, trust your own voice, and build a life that feels genuinely aligned with who you are, not who you've had to be
My Approach
As a queer trauma-aware integrative therapist, my work is grounded in clear affirmation and respect for LGBTQIA+ identities, language, and lived experience without question or pathologising. I don't do 'clinical' therapy, I hope that therapy with me feels 'real' and human, and a place where you can begin to feel more fully seen, understood, and met.
Getting started
Finding a therapist can feel super daunting especially if you’re already feeling overwhelmed or unsure what you need!
That’s why I offer a free 15-minute intro call first. It’s just a relaxed chat where we can get to know each other, talk a little about what’s been going on for you, and see whether working together feels like a good fit!
Training, qualifications & experience
I’m a qualified psychotherapist with a First Class Honours degree in Person-Centred Experiential Therapy. This approach is grounded in humanistic and Emotion-Focused principles, an evidence-based relational approach that supports people in reconnecting with their emotional experience and developing a stronger sense of self.
Since I qualified, I’ve worked with clients across the UK and Europe in both private practice and community mental health settings. Many of the people I’ve supported have described feeling stuck in their heads, overwhelmed by constant thinking, or disconnected from themselves in the context of busy, pressured modern lives.
Over time, this has shaped the way I work. Rather than focusing only on managing symptoms, I’m interested in what sits underneath them, how people lose touch with themselves, how they have come to find themselves in patterns of overthinking or self-doubt, and how they can begin to reconnect with their own inner experience.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in meeting you where you are, without expectation or judgement. Therapy is a space to slow things down, make sense of your inner world, and begin rebuilding a more connected relationship with yourself.
Member organisations
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Sessions cost £70 and last the full 60 minutes. I use Google Meet for our sessions, where we would meet each other either weekly or fortnightly! I also offer a free 15-minute intro call so we can see if working together feels right!
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