Ali Press - online counselling
About the Therapist
Are you tired of feeling stuck and misunderstood, like you don't fit, and exhausted by the effort of trying to? Do you feel like your difference - not being like the others - gets in the way of living well, and being authentically you?
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- Queer
Here's my website, where you can read more about what I do - alipress.uk And here's a link to my member profile on the BACP website - Ali Press, MBACP
My core training is underpinned by Dr Petrūska Clarkson's 5-Stage Relationship Model, an integrative approach to counselling with psychodynamic leanings. I have also trained in LGBTQ+ Affirmative Counselling with ELOP, and hold a Diploma in Coaching and Positive Psychology. In addition to my private work I volunteer one day a week as a counsellor with London Friend, a London-based LGBTQ+ mental health charity.
Passionate about supporting people through periods of change, I have been helping people rethinking their drinking habits since 2017. Throughout this time I have been active in supporting online communities, and have volunteered at various Mindful Drinking Festivals and social events for the LGBTQ+ community.
Before training in counselling and coaching, I spent nearly twenty years working in further and higher education. I supported colleagues in integrating technology into their teaching and learning practices, and taught others how to teach and support students effectively.
For relaxation I like growing food and flowers (especially for the pollinators!), swimming, practicing tai chi, reading, and hanging out with my family.
I blend techniques from both counselling and coaching when appropriate. Both share a core belief in each person's ability to create a fulfilling life, given the right circumstances and support.
Integrating counselling and coaching equips me with an authentic and ethical way to work safely at emotional depth and be able to sit with the process when needed, and inject forward momentum, opening our horizons to the future when appropriate.
My clients often find the freedom of movement between forward motion and exploration of the past energising and refreshing. Whilst we may well be looking at the past through a lens of what was missing and what went wrong, we will also be looking to the future, and working out the extent to which solutions already exist in the present. And where they don't, we can spend some time looking at how to find them.
Essentially, my work incorporates past, present and future, and my belief that we all have the ability, given the right support and circumstances, to change. Having an eye on the future means we can build better lives in real time, rather than having to excavate ourselves and/or the past in order to find the 'magic key' that's going to unlock everything for us.
If this sounds like what you're looking for, get in touch for a confidential, judgement- and shame-free chat about what you're looking for from counselling
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Neurodivergent
- Person-Centred
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Bi- | Pansexual
- Consensual non-monogamy
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Neurodivergent
- Non-binary | Genderqueer
- Queer
- Questioning
- Trans
- One to one
- No adaptation
- Adults
- Seniors (60+)
- Online
- In Person
Daytime (to 5pm) - £75 per 50-minute session
Evening (5-9pm) - £90 per 50-minute session
I also have a limited number of lower-cost slots for those who need them.
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