Alexandra Skan
Compassionate counsellor for recovery and resilience
About Alexandra
Alexandra Skan helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and relationship or family challenges. She also supports those coping with grief, intimacy concerns, eating or substance issues, anger, work and career pressures, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Alexandra is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, with four years of professional counselling experience in the UK. She brings a direct and warm style to sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are interactive and focused on practical change. Alexandra aims to make the room feel respectful and non-judgemental so thoughts and feelings can be shared openly. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
She also uses client-centred ways of listening and cognitive-behavioural techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking. Motivational interviewing is used when people are working through addictions or readiness to change. Sessions are tailored to each person.
Alexandra will work with you to set realistic goals and try different ways of working until something fits. Progress is tracked through regular conversation and review. Taking that first step can feel worrying.
Alexandra offers straightforward guidance and steady support while you explore challenges and build new coping skills.
What Alexandra works with
How Alexandra works
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Sessions & fees
How Alexandra's approaches translate online
Alexandra uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how past relationship patterns affect feelings and current behaviour. This approach is useful for those who notice repeating relationship problems or difficulties trusting others.She also works with client-centred counselling, which means sessions focus on the person and their priorities. The counsellor listens closely and supports people to find their own solutions, which can help with confidence and decision-making.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and acting. This method is practical for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adapt based on what suits the person best. That collaboration helps tailor sessions to real needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible access to these ways of working. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help progress. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for regular support between sessions or for people who prefer writing their thoughts. Registered or accredited professionals can deliver the same therapeutic methods online, making it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
