Alice Howard

Alice Howard is a counsellor with 16 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people who are coping with addictions, LGBT-related issues, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and eating concerns. She aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what matters to them and find practical ways forward.

She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into sessions. Conversations centre on clarifying what a more fulfilling life would look like and on small steps that feel doable. The counsellor offers steady support while people try out different coping strategies.

Alice uses a mix of well-established approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy, adapting these to individual needs. Sessions often involve noticing unhelpful patterns, learning new ways of responding, and working on clearer communication and emotional understanding.

Her broader focus includes areas such as body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, adoption and foster care, and issues around intimacy and alternative sexual cultures. She also works with concerns linked to codependency, commitment, and communication problems.

People who choose to work with Alice can expect a collaborative, respectful process. The aim is practical change grounded in each person’s own values and goals. Those seeking to begin are invited to consider what they want to address and to take the next step when ready.

How her approaches shape online counselling

Alice uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a meaningful life, which can help with grief, addiction, and low mood.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to make sense of how past relationships affect current reactions. This way of working helps people improve close relationships and feel more secure in how they connect with others.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences, reviewing what helps and adjusting as needed.

Confirm the available session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around everyday life, avoid travel time, and keep appointments during busy weeks. It also allows shorter check-ins when time is tight or talking by voice instead of video when that feels preferable.