About me
All Sessions are Online via Zoom
Does this sound familiar:
- You’re trapped in a loop of overthinking and self-doubt, never quite feeling good enough.
- Your relationships feel strained or disappointing, no matter how much you try.
- Relaxing and enjoying life feels like an impossible task - your mind just won’t let you.
You don’t have to keep living this way.
I help deeply feeling, often neurodivergent adults who seem fine on the surface but inside feel like they're in survival mode. Many of my clients are late-identified autistic, ADHD or AuDHD, finally starting to make sense of a lifetime of feeling slightly out of step. Others have begun to realise that growing up with emotionally immature or unavailable parents has had a bigger impact than they expected. Most have both going on at once.
In our work together, you'll have a space where you are truly listened to and understood. I'll ask thoughtful questions to help you make sense of what's going on beneath the surface. Together we'll explore the patterns of perfectionism, people-pleasing and procrastination and start to understand where they came from and how we can change the volume on your inner critic so you can move forward from the stuckness.
I work with childhood trauma, CPTSD, shame, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, emotional abuse, relational trauma, burnout and codependency. I use a humanistic relational-developmental approach alongside EMDR, which is a gold-standard trauma therapy that can shift things that have felt stuck for a long time.
I'm neurodivergent myself. I don't pathologise the way your brain works. I am LGBTQIA+ affirming, and trans, non-binary and queer people are welcome in my practice.
This isn't therapy that hands you a list of coping strategies and sends you on your way. It's the deeper work - understanding who you actually are, what you actually need, and building a relationship with yourself that doesn't depend on everyone else's approval.
If you're ready to take that step, I'd love to hear from you. You can book through my website, or email me at hello@alicetew.com and I'll get back to you within 48 hours.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BSc (Hons) Counselling & Psychotherapy. My degree covered:
- Humanistic Psychotherapy
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Child development theories including attachment
- Trauma
- Shame
- I have also completed additional training in:
- Working with Relational Trauma
- Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice
- TA101 (Transactional Analysis)
- Polyvagal Theory
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Disordered Eating
- Online Therapy Training
- Rewind Therapy (MRT) for PTSD
- EMDR
I am neurodivergent and have experience working with both childhood diagnosed and late recognised autistic and ADHD clients.
I am LGBTQIA+ affirming. Trans, non-binary and queer people are welcome in my practice.
I regularly update my learning through reading, research and additional training.
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.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Childhood Emotional Neglect
- Estrangement
- GAD (Generalised anxiety disorder)
- BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder)
- Carers of people with Alzheimer’s
- Family relationship issues
- Body image
- Disordered eating
- Family relationships
- Antenatal depression
- Postnatal depression (in both women and men)
- Parenting
- Co-parenting
- General sense that something is wrong
Therapies offered
Fees
£110.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fee is £110 for 50 minutes.
All of my sessions are currently online via Zoom.
If you are a previous client and cannot afford my current fee, please get in touch to discuss options.
I am registered with AXA and Aviva health insurance.
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