Alison Westmacott

Work days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Evening availility limited but available Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

Currently some availablilty on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Talking is a healing process. I'm offering 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 can work with a wide range of emotional and relational issues both for individuals and couples. I work with adults (18+), face-to-face, on the telephone or online in both long-term and short-term capacitites. Email or call to book a intro call and talk through your needs.

I have a warm and welcoming counselling room where you will have privacy and safety. I work with some clients long-term, while for some our work has a more short-term focus.  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 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 conveniet 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 to really see what the work is we may need to do and whether we can all approach the counselling collectively and with clarity around how to move forward. The assessment session is charged at the same rate as a standard session. All sessions are 50 minutes.

Please call or 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: alisonwestmacottcounselling.com