Alex Karban

I currently have availability, my working days are Tues-Fri. I aim to reply to any enquiry within 24hrs within the days Monday-Friday. 

Hi, I’m Alex — a Â鶹ԭ´´-registered counsellor based in East Bristol. I offer a warm, relational approach to therapy, creating a compassionate and open space where you can explore what’s going on for you, at your own pace.

I work in an existentially informed way, drawing on ideas from psychodynamic and humanistic traditions. The issues I commonly work with include anxiety, depression, identity, and what it means to turn and face life’s challenges — often including the ones beyond our control.

Together, we might look at how past experiences and relationships are shaping your present, the challenge of coping in a fast-moving and often overwhelming world which relentlessly demands more of us, or the deeper questions that can arise — around meaning, isolation, or fear of the future.

In therapy, there can be space to challenge hardship, patterns and pressures, and to tackle the shame that so often comes with trying to be everything we’ve been taught to expect of ourselves.

Whatever you’re facing, I believe therapy can offer connection, insight, and the possibility of real change.

I provide 50-minute face-to-face talking therapy sessions from my garden room in BS16, and I also offer online sessions via video.

I offer a free initial phone conversation, mainly to see what's going on for you and for you to check we might be a good fit (this would usually last 10-15 minutes). 

Our first session would be a 50 minute session at full price.