Alice Howard, NCPS

Alice Howard is a counsellor with 16 years of experience who helps people facing addictions, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and eating-related difficulties. She meets people where they are and treats them as the expert on their own life. She aims to make the first step feel manageable and to offer steady support while someone explores change.

Her practice is grounded in therapies that focus on values, relationships, and present-moment experience. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns.

Alice also uses Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship patterns or early bonds are important to the difficulty someone is having. Client-Centred Therapy informs the way she listens, keeping the person’s perspective central and pacing sessions to what feels manageable.

She works with a wide range of related concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, codependency, communication problems, and aspects of kink and alternative sex culture. Her approach is straightforward and conversational, focused on practical ways to cope day to day.

People who choose to work with her can expect a collaborative process. Sessions emphasise the client’s goals, clear steps to try between meetings, and reflection on what helps most in real life.

How different approaches work in online therapy

Alice uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people identify their values and take small committed actions that match what matters to them. ACT often focuses on accepting difficult feelings while building a life guided by chosen values, which can be helpful for issues like addiction or anxiety.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people notice recurring relational habits and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot and test unhelpful thoughts and behaviours through short practical exercises that can be done between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and work together with the client to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. This collaborative process means adjustments can be made as needs change.

If you are considering online sessions, check the available session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time so someone can use a lunch break or evening slot. Many people find these practical benefits let them sustain work on difficult issues over time.