Alison Jeffries

My office hours are 9am-3pm, Monday, Tuesday and Friday

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I support clients with a wide range of issues and goals, including:

• Difficulty in relationships (with family, partner, children, etc.)
• Divorce and separation
• Work-related stress
• Traumatic life events
• Domestic abuse and coercive control
• Finding your authenticity
• Deepening spirituality
• Assertiveness
• Boundaries
• Neurodiversity, (including ADHD and Autism)
• Supporting your neurodiverse child (including helping you to advocate for their educational needs)
• Finding meaning and purpose

I use an integrative approach, which means I mix and match from the following:

• Person-centred counselling (I help you process your thoughts and feelings)
• Transactional-Analysis (TA) - to help with interpersonal relationships
• Gestalt - An embodied, whole-person approach that won't reduce you to your symptoms
• CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a more structured approach as used in the NHS.  It is particularly effective for anxiety and depression, fears and worries.  
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) - An approach that looks at the core-beliefs and 'parts' of you that want to behave in ways that no longer serve you. 
• Trauma-informed counselling - To safely explore past trauma. 
• Skills Building - New skills to help you get through difficult situations.  
• Therapeutic Coaching - Working together to help you achieve goals.  
• Solution focussed brief therapy - An agreed run of sessions with focus on a particular issue you want to resolve
• Single-session therapy - if you have a very specific issues to explore in just one session
• Rewind therapy - a two/three session treatment for PTSD flashbacks.  

I have an (upstairs) office in Winton, Bournemouth

I offer online and telephone sessions.  

I will do home visits to accommodate clients with disabilities.  

I will send you an assessment questionnaire plus terms and conditions before commencing.  Payment to be made in advance of sessions.  

My private practice is 9am-3pm, Monday, Tuesday and Friday.  

I am available privately for to supervise counsellors, life-coaches and psychology professionals, as well as restorative supervision, for those working in emotionally intensive roles such as teaching, nursing and care work.    

I am both spiritual and pragmatic.  These may seem like contradictory extremes but I personally find my approach transitions naturally between the two and I simply adapt to client needs.  

Pragmatic supervision

Sometimes supervision needs to be hands-on and practical.  I am experienced in brief, solution-focussed counselling and a qualified life-coach, so can use these skills to help supervisees.  I can help you resolve an ethical dilemma, develop and expand your private practice, prepare you for accreditation, or explore strategies to help with a specific client presentation.  

Spiritual supervision

My own spiritually is evolving and I am enjoying the journey.  In supervision, drawing on this involves getting out of our heads and into a more somatic and contemplative space in which we can be curious about what emerges.   I often draw on the spiritual side IFS, which tends to resonate well with spiritually minded practitioners.  

Supervision frameworks

My supervision practice integrates the CLEAR coaching framework (Hawkins) with the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision (Hawkins and Shohet). I draw on complementary frameworks where helpful, such as the Cyclical Model (Page and Wosket) and the CBT Model of Supervision (Milne). I view supervision as a collaborative and equal relationship that balances the needs of your clients with you own needs as a practitioner.  

My therapeutic roots

As a counsellor, my integrative base includes Person-Centred, Transactional Analysis (TA) and Gestalt therapy.  I also integrate CBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Trauma-informed, Rewind technique, Neuro-affirming, ACT, DBT and Psychodynamic approaches.  

I have an (upstairs) office in Winton, Bournemouth for face-to-face sessions.  

I also offer online sessions.  

If you are considering working with me, I offer 1 session free-of-charge as a chemistry session.  There is no obligation to continue.  

I will ask you complete an online questionnaire and agree to terms and conditions before commencing.