Alison Stevenson

I am an integrative psychotherapist, accredited with the BACP and have over 12 years’ experience working with adults and teenagers. Whether you would like to take care of your general mental health and emotional well-being or explore and work through more difficult life experiences or relationships, I am an experienced therapist who embodies the core qualities of empathy, compassion and acceptance, offering a non-judgemental space for therapy.

Being able to explore your thoughts and feelings, your relationships and interactions with others, may help you to understand the challenges you face and help you to identify any areas for change. Having a trustworthy therapist to talk to can be extremely valuable and can support you in living a more authentic and fulfilling life.life.

My practice incorporates a range of theoretical modalities to work with your individual needs, including Humanistic, Psychodynamic and Attachment frameworks. My approach is very much relationally focused, developing trust and safety to be able to work collaboratively and at your own pace. I am also qualified to work as a CBT practitioner (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) exploring negative thinking patterns and the core beliefs we hold about ourselves, about others and the world, and finding ways to challenge and change these ideas to develop a more positive self-esteem and self-worth. In addition, I incorporate Mindfulness Meditation and practices for well-being, which I share through experiential exercises in sessions, to help alleviate symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression.

I also work creatively with the arts, for those individuals who would like to. I have found that using a variety of artistic mediums facilitates exploration and discovery of our unconscious processes.  The emphasis is on the individual’s own interpretations of their creative process, rather than my analysis of what is created. 

I am experienced in working with many presenting concerns including depression, anxiety, social-anxiety, panic attacks, family issues, bereavement/loss, attachment/separation, eating issues, abuse & trauma, sexual assault, relationships, self-harm, suicidal ideation, low self-esteem/self-worth.

If you would like to discuss how we might work together and to share some of your experiences and the challenges that you currently face, I very much look forward to meeting you.

• 2021
• Diploma in Counselling Teenagers 
• 2019
• CPD – CBT and Counselling with ASD
• 2018
• CPD – 5 Week Bereavement Training 
• CPD – CCMH Conference Building Resilience
• 2017
• CPD – CCMH Conference Trauma Informed Mental Health Practices
• CPD – Understanding Honour-based crimes
• 2016
• CPD – Gender Identity
• CPD – Mental Health Conference
• CPD – Art therapy & Mindfulness
• 2015
• CPD – 3 day professional training – Therapeutic Use of Mindfulness
• 2014
• CPD –Working with Self-Harm and Eating Disorders
• CPD – Conference: Risk & Resilience
• CPD – 1 year Mindfulness Practitioner Training 
• 2013
• City & Guilds: L3/L4 Preparing to teach in the lifelong learning sector 
• 2012
• CPD –  Attachment Across the Life-cycle (Wimbledon Guild Counselling Training)
• 2010
• Post-graduate certificate – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• 2009
• CPD – Working with Shame
• CPD –Personality Disorders
• CPD – Anger & Rage
• Diploma Integrative Counselling
• 2008
• CPD – Separation and Reunion Forum
• 2007
• Certificate for Person-Centred and Psychodynamic Counselling
• 2002
• BSc (Hons) Degree Psychology