Alexandra Squires, BACP

Alexandra Squires is a counsellor with 11 years of experience working in the UK. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, eating issues, self-esteem and depression. Alexandra aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and supportive. She creates an open, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings. Sessions are grounded in practical conversation and gentle reflection rather than jargon. Alexandra helps clients identify small changes that make day-to-day life easier. Her approach draws on client-centred work, where the person’s experience guides the pace and focus of sessions. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try out different ways of responding. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with stress and anxious moments. Alexandra has worked with people dealing with abandonment and attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and challenges around ageing and caregiving. She also supports those managing chronic illness, body image and eating-related worries, and the fallout from separation or divorce. Practical communication and relationship skills are part of her work when that is helpful. She also offers support around codependency, control and commitment worries, and dependent personality patterns. Language of work is English and sessions are based in the United Kingdom.

Approaches you can use in online counselling

Client-centred therapy puts your experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to you, helping you set the pace and focus for change.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It uses practical steps to test unhelpful thoughts and try out different responses, which can help with anxiety, low mood and relationship patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try first. That collaborative decision is reviewed as you go so the plan fits your needs.

Confirm current session formats before booking so you know the practical options offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life, for example by removing travel time, letting you have shorter check-ins, or making it simpler to meet during a work break. Registered and accredited professionals can adapt exercises and reflections for remote sessions so the work remains practical and focused.