How I can help
I offer counselling in Morpeth and online support for a range of challenges, including:
- Anxiety and stress - Anxiety can feel constant and difficult to manage. Counselling helps you understand what is driving it and find ways to cope day to day.
- Depression and low mood - Low mood can affect how you think and feel. We work together to explore what is behind it and take steps forward.
- Grief and bereavement - Loss affects everyone differently. Counselling gives you space to process grief at your own pace.
- Trauma and past experiences - Past experiences can continue to affect you. We work gently to help you process and regain a sense of control.
- Relationship difficulties - This may include communication issues or feeling disconnected. Counselling helps you understand patterns and improve relationships.
- Work-related stress - Work pressures can build over time. Counselling helps you manage stress, boundaries, and next steps.
Integrative Therapy
Integrative therapy combines multiple approaches flexibly, creating a personalised strategy that adapts to your needs and promotes lasting change.Person-Centred Therapy
Person-centred therapy is based on the belief that everyone can grow and understand themselves with the right support. It provides empathy, acceptance, and a non-judgmental space, allowing you to explore your thoughts and feelings and build trust in your strengths.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
In CBT, you’ll explore the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. This approach helps uncover patterns that cause distress and offers practical tools for managing anxiety, stress, and low mood.Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Using strategies such as mindfulness and emotion regulation, DBT helps you build skills to manage intense emotions, cope with distress, and improve relationships.Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma-focused therapy is gentle and paced at your comfort. It supports emotional safety and resilience while helping you process difficult experiences and understand their impact.Psychodynamic Therapy
By exploring how unconscious patterns and past experiences shape your feelings and relationships, psychodynamic therapy offers deeper insight and supports lasting change.Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
Interpersonal therapy targets how relationship patterns and life events affect your emotional well-being. It promotes healthier communication and smoother transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships and experiences can shape the way we connect with others and respond emotionally. By understanding these patterns, therapy can help us develop healthier relationships, strengthen emotional security, and improve how we relate to ourselves and others.Client feedback
“I would like to send you a huge thank you for your help over the last year. You have been so very helpful, giving practical advice and support after my domestic abuse ordeal. You've been my voice of reason, helping me to ground myself and avoid overthinking, as well as giving me confidence to take back control of my life. I have learned so much from you and from the information and links you've provided. I'm back on my feet with new boundaries and a positive outlook for the first time in 2 years. I can't thank you enough. I wouldn't hesitate to contact you again if required and would 100% recommend you to others.”
“Working with Alison has been wonderful and I would highly recommend her as a therapist. She is an attentive listener, very easy to talk to and has a calm and empathetic demeanour which always made me feel very at ease. I opened about issues that I've kept bottled up for years, and she responded supportively and compassionately, whilst offering tools to help me cope with the problem. I'm incredibly grateful for the positive impact she's had on my outlook for life.”
“Alison is a compassionate person, who listens without judgment. She is easy to talk with and one immediately feels safe. She gives wise counsel and is very supportive. I would highly recommend her.”
“Alison provided me with support to learn and strengthen so many life skills that I felt I lacked. I used to find it very difficult expressing my emotions and would mask as a positive people-pleaser. Through our sessions she made me more self-aware and helped me to look at difficult emotional situations from a different perspective. This then led to helping me look within to see who I was and what my needs were. Now I can comfortably set boundaries and I am more assertive and able to express my wants and needs. Alison always gave me a non-judgmental space to be heard while I worked through a difficult time.”
“Alison is a fabulous and experienced therapist. She has a gentle empathic manner and really helped me discuss deeply sensitive problems and explore why I was facing the difficulties that had become so painful in my life. She set me on the right track and session by session I felt better. Highly recommended”
“Alison helped me through an extremely difficult time in my life with calm kindness and understanding that was exactly what I needed at that point. She gave me the tools to manage my emotions and deal with events in my life in a positive productive way. I will forever be grateful for the impact she has had in my life.”
Contact me
I’m here to help
Ready to take the first step? I'm here to support you on your journey.
Based in Morpeth, Northumberland, with face to face and online sessions available.
For a private and confidential chat, please call 07778 719 382 or fill out the form below. Alternatively, email me via alison@calonlancounselling.co.uk.
I will get back to you as soon as possible to discuss how I can help.