Alice Howard, NCPS

NCPS. 16 years' experience. Alice Howard works with people dealing with addictions, LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, grief and eating concerns. She uses a mix of approaches and focuses on helping clients draw on their own strengths to manage what feels overwhelming.

Alice says clients are the experts on their own lives. She offers a collaborative style that encourages people to notice what matters to them and try small practical changes. Sessions involve talking things through, looking at patterns that keep problems going, and practising skills that make day-to-day life easier.

Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas among other methods. That means some work on changing unhelpful thinking, some on accepting difficult feelings, and some on improving how people relate to others. She also uses client-centred listening to follow what each person brings to the room.

Alice has spent much of her 16 years working with people affected by relationship difficulties, identity-related stresses, and the aftermath of trauma. She lists additional focus areas such as body image, codependency, chronic illness and caregiving stress, and issues connected to adoption and foster care.

Sessions are conducted in English and international clients are accepted. Costs vary with location and services use a cancellable subscription model. To start, prospective clients are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and book a first session.

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