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Alison | Counsellor
Counselling Pontefract
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or simply worn down by carrying everything on your own, I’m here to offer you a space where you can finally breathe. Working with me means having someone in your corner, someone who listens, doesn’t judge, and helps you make sense of what’s going on inside.
You might be dealing with anxiety, low confidence, relationship strain, grief, long‑term health challenges, or the exhaustion that comes from coping for too long. Whatever your situation, you deserve support that feels gentle, steady, and genuinely focused on you.
In our sessions, you’ll have a calm, private space where you can talk about the things you don’t feel able to share with friends or family. You set the pace. You choose what feels safe to explore. My role is to help you feel understood, grounded, and more able to navigate what life is asking of you.
Clients often come to me when they want:
• A place to untangle overwhelming thoughts
• Support with anxiety or low self‑esteem
• Space to explore relationship or family difficulties
• Compassionate support through grief or loss
• Understanding around long‑term health conditions
• A break from being “the strong one” or the carer
If any of this sounds familiar, you’re welcome to meet with me in Darrington, Pontefract (daytime & evening) or Wakefield (daytime). You don’t have to figure everything out alone, we can work through it together, in a way that feels manageable and respectful of where you are right now.
Online therapy
I also offer online counselling by Microsoft Teams which gives you the flexibility to have therapy in your own home or safe space..Qualifications and registrations
SEG awards Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling.BACP Member
MOE Certified Coach
Trauma-Informed Counsellor
Registrations
Most common issues I support people with:
- Anxiety
- Low Self Esteem/Low Confidence
- Depression
- Stress
- Long Term Health Conditions
Therapies offered
- ✓ Counselling
- ✓ Couples counselling
- ✓ Online counselling
- ✓ Person-centred therapy
- ✓ Relationship Counselling
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Abortion
- ✓ Abuse
- ✓ Anxiety
- ✓ Attachment disorder
- ✓ Being a perfectionist
- ✓ Being assertive
- ✓ Bereavement, grief, loss
- ✓ Bullying
- ✓ Burnout
- ✓ Communication
- ✓ Self confidence
- ✓ Covid-19 Anxiety
- ✓ Depression
- ✓ Family problems
- ✓ Fear
- ✓ Feeling lonely
- ✓ Feeling sad
- ✓ Infertility
- ✓ Insecurity
- ✓ Jealousy
- ✓ Living with cancer
- ✓ Low self esteem
- ✓ Miscarriage
- ✓ Obsessive compulsive disorder
- ✓ Panic attack
- ✓ Performance anxiety
- ✓ Phobia
- ✓ Post-traumatic stress disorder
- ✓ Postnatal depression
- ✓ Redundancy
- ✓ Relationship issues
- ✓ Retirement
- ✓ Self-harm
- ✓ Setting boundaries
- ✓ Sight loss
- ✓ Sleep problems
- ✓ Social phobia
- ✓ Stress
- ✓ Trauma
- ✓ Workplace stress
- ✓ Worrying too much
Fees
£50 for a 50 minute session for Individual Counselling£70 for 50 minute Couples/Relationship Counselling
Availability (Opening hours)
| Monday | 10am-8pm |
| Tuesday | 10am-5pm |
| Wednesday | 10am-8pm |
| Thursday | 10am-8pm |
| Friday | 9am-12pm |
| Saturday | - |
| Sunday | - |
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