Alison Fraser
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About me
As a Pluralistic Psychotherapist trained in a wide range of approaches with 30 years of experience supporting people in a range of roles, I offer a warm, compassionate space with you at the heart. I have worked in the NHS and had my own registered mental health charity, having been a specialist mental health therapist, eating disorders therapist, addictions therapist and a specialist mental health occupational therapist. I offer a warm, supportive space to help you build the skills to develop resilience and make positive changes based on respect and compassion.
I will adapt therapy to meet your needs working in a person centred way drawing on a range of approaches including psychodynamic, solution focussed, and cognitive behavioural approaches with psychoeducational strategies. What is found in clinical studies to be the most important factor in counselling is the relationship. I bring a lifetime of understanding which began very young and is the basis of my work. I bring warmth, empathy and a non-judgemental approach, believing you are the expert on yourself. My counselling work has been published nationally as examples of excellence in practice and my clinical work has been used as examples of clinical excellence. Counselling offers you the space, confidentiality and time you need to make positive changes in how you feel, act and navigate the world. What matters is you, together we can find ways to make life feel better, for you to feel empowered and to make choices from a place of awareness. I offer a safe space to support you gain new perspectives and insights.
Approach
I put you at the heart of our work together, to meet your needs. I understand the wide ranging challenges which life can bring, and how we do what we can to survive those as best we can, till we gain insight and make conscious choices. I offer a warm, non-judgmental, empathic approach. .
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy in Pluralistic Counselling, a 1st Class Hons degree as a mental health therapist trained in the person centred approach and open offers of Doctorates including the first cross school doctorate in Health, Medicine and Theology. I’ve done a vast array of professional training including mindfulness, IFL, Adolescent Mentalization Based Integrative Therapy, Attachment Based Interviewing, Creative Therapy, Compassion Therapy and Motivational Interviewing among many others. I have also delivered NHS patient groups on anxiety management, assertiveness training, mindfulness, the Cognitive Behavioural Approach, Life Skills and problem solving. My undergraduate training was in person centred humanistic counselling and I have 4 years of training through a Masters in Pluralistic Counselling which includes the study of a wide range of approaches to enable therapy to be tailored to meet your needs. I have also given clinical supervision to trainee counsellors and I have been a Counselling Manager managing a large caseload and a team of counsellors. I have travelled extensively including in Russia, Central America, and Europe and my learning is ongoing, through life experience and within my current employment as specialist counsellor working with individuals who have a neurodiversity.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 - £65.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer reduced rates for people currently on reduced income, please contact me for more information.
When I work
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I offer online or telephone sessions please contact me for more information and a free introductory 15 minute zoom or telephone call.
Further information
It takes courage to share our struggles, but through this we derive clarity, empowerment and insight. I have successfully helped people with long standing issues including anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, eating disorders, addictions, relationship problems, childhood abuse, domestic abuse, bereavement, and many other issues including neurodiversity/sensory issues, and trauma. I offer a safe, confidential space for you to be heard and given the time you need. I offer mainly online and telephone sessions, with a limited number of face to face sessions available.
