Lisa Ali
Empathic person-centred counsellor
About Lisa
Lisa Ali uses a person-centred approach to help people feel heard and understood. She offers a calm and steady presence for those facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and identity questions. Lisa holds an NCPS credential and works from the United Kingdom, speaking English.
She has six years of practice supporting people through difficult moments and life changes. Her counselling style focuses on the client’s experience and priorities. Sessions are shaped by what the person needs that day, with an emphasis on building trust and going at a comfortable pace.
Background and approach
She draws on solution-focused techniques when practical steps and goal-setting can help someone make small, steady changes. Lisa also uses trauma-focused work when past events are getting in the way of daily life. That work looks at how memories and reactions affect current feelings, and at ways to reduce overwhelming responses.
She combines that with client-led discussion to help people regain control and feel less stuck. She has trained in humanistic counselling and completed additional professional development, including online and telephone counselling and bereavement workshops. Her background includes work with neurodivergent people and attention to sensory and social overwhelm, masking, and identity concerns.
In sessions Lisa helps people build coping skills for anger, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, and low self-esteem. She also supports exploration of intimate and relationship issues, communication problems, and career or parenting stresses. The aim is clearer direction, better self-understanding, and practical steps towards feeling steadier.
Getting started is straightforward: people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that suit them. Lisa uses a collaborative style and prioritises a warm, accepting working relationship.
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Sessions & fees
How Lisa’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of each session. The counsellor follows the client’s lead, listens closely, and helps the person explore feelings and choices without pressure. This approach is helpful for low mood, self-esteem issues, identity questions, and when someone needs a steady, understanding listener.Solution-focused therapy concentrates on practical steps and short-term goals. Sessions often look for small changes that build momentum, such as new coping strategies or clearer communication habits. This method can suit people seeking quick, concrete progress around stress, career concerns, or daily routines.
Trauma-focused work addresses how past events shape current reactions and emotional life. It involves careful pacing and coping tools to reduce overwhelming responses and support recovery from traumatic or abusive experiences.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, and together they will pick methods that fit the person and the issues at hand. It’s a collaborative process, with flexibility to change direction if needed.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to work around work, family and travel commitments while keeping a steady therapeutic rhythm.
| 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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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
