Alys Nightingale
Warm evidence-based counsellor for difficult life moments
About Alys
Alys Nightingale works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief and intimacy-related issues. She is a BACP counsellor with 21 years of experience and practises in the United Kingdom. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people build emotional resilience and find practical ways forward.
Alys focuses on listening closely so people feel understood. She helps clients make sense of their feelings and thoughts, and supports them to speak honestly about worries they may have kept hidden.
Background and approach
Sessions are intended to be a place where people can be themselves and talk through what matters most to them. Her work draws on strategies that encourage gentleness rather than self-criticism. Alys offers tools to reduce distress and to transform difficult patterns into more helpful ways of coping.
This can include small practical steps and ways to notice and shift unhelpful thinking. Across many years she has helped people with a wide range of concerns beyond the core areas, including abandonment and attachment issues, blended family matters, fertility and fatherhood issues, caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, dissociation, and divorce and separation.
She also supports people facing communication problems, family of origin wounds, emptiness and forgiveness work. Alys welcomes people from different countries to work online in English. She uses phone, video, live chat and text messaging so sessions can fit around other commitments.
The first step is to complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions that suit the person’s schedule.
What Alys works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based approaches work online
Alys uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to focus on present problems and build practical skills. One common approach she uses helps people notice unhelpful thinking and change it through clearer, more balanced ways of thinking. This is useful for anxiety, stress and relationship worries.She also draws on approaches that focus on attachment and patterns from early relationships. These methods help people understand how past experiences shape current feelings and interactions, which can be especially helpful for intimacy issues and family of origin concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alys will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful based on their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so each person gets a practical, tailored way forward.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support and for people who prefer writing over talking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
