Alison Westmacott

Work days: Tuesday (9am - 8pm), Wednesday (9am-5pm), Thursday (10am- 7pm) and Friday (9am - 6pm).

Evening availability limited - some availability Thursday. 

As talking is a healing process, I offer you a friendly, safe space to share your thoughts and feelings. Somewhere we can work together, free from judgement to help you get your life back to where you want it to be. I offer a trained listening ear and a genuine interest in helping you explore your feelings and patterns. 

I work with a wide range of emotional and relational issues both for individuals and couples, including anxiety, parenting, low-self esteem, bereavement and much more. I can help adults (18+) either face-to-face, on the telephone or online in both long-term and short-term capacitites. 

The approaches I use vary, however,  I mainly use person-centred counselling and /or a psychodynamic model. With sleep insomnia, I use CBT-I, whereby an assessment takes place and then the structured models applied as necessary. For couples work I put into practice the Imago Relational Therapy model, but also incorporate other appproaches  if useful.

Email alison@alisonwestmacottcounselling.com or call to book a 15 minute intro call and talk through your needs.

I have a warm, welcoming and quiet counselling room where you will have privacy and safety. The room is fresh and spacious but not too big, and the creative objects and tools I use sometimes when counselling are visable and displayed, forming part of the backdrop of the space we would work in. 

I work with some clients for a long time, while for some the work has a more short-term focus, in particular for CBT-I.  My approach always considers the close connection between mind and body, while also offering more specific approaches and modalilities, such as psychodynamic, person-centred or Imago technique. 

I can help with anxiety, depression, bereavement, trauma, relationship issues, life transitions, work-related stress, self-confidence and much more. For specific difficultites with sleep I am trained in CBT-I (CBT for Insomnia) and I have specialised, in depth training and qualification for working with couples.

Taking the leap and starting counselling can be hard and finding the right counsellor can be overwhelming. With this in mind, for 1:1 and couples sessions I offer a brief, no obligation, telephone call where we can talk about your needs and work out together if I can help you. This usually takes about 15 minutes and is arranged at a mutually convenient time.

When working with couples, I do an assessment as part of the first session in addition to the call. This will not feel like an assessment in a formal sense, but offers both the couple and myself an opportunity to really see what the work is we may need to do together and whether we can all approach the counselling collectively and with clarity around moving forward. The assessment session is charged at the same rate as a standard session. 

All sessions are 50 minutes.

Please do use the contact form or call / email me if you would like to discuss starting some counselling with me. You can also visit my website to find out more about my practice and see pictures of my counselling room at: alisonwestmacottcounselling.com