Alanna Farrow, BACP

Alanna Farrow helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She supports those dealing with relationship strain, low self-esteem, motivation problems and workplace difficulties. She also works with people affected by addiction and anger, and with those navigating life changes such as divorce or bereavement.

Alanna is a BACP counsellor with three years of professional experience in the UK. She has eight years of experience supporting people affected by cancer and brings that background into sessions when relevant. Her approach aims to be straightforward and kind, so people feel able to speak openly about what matters to them.

In sessions she creates space for practical conversation as well as emotional reflection. She uses client-centred methods to follow what each person brings to the room. She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help people test thoughts and try different ways of coping.

Her style is calm and collaborative. She helps people set small, realistic goals and notices progress along the way. Conversations can cover practical steps for daily life as well as how to make sense of painful feelings.

Alanna encourages anyone thinking about counselling to take a single next step. She guides the initial matching and scheduling process so people know what to expect before they begin.

How Alanna’s approaches translate to online counselling

Alanna uses client-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy in her work. Client-centred counselling focuses on listening and following what the person brings, helping people feel heard and understood and often useful for discussing relationships, grief and self-worth. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours affect feelings and helps people try practical steps to reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Alanna will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. That means adjusting the balance of listening, reflection and practical exercises to suit how someone wants to work.

Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into daily life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing a shorter check-in during a lunch break. It can also make arranging regular meetings simpler when someone is living in a different region. The original biography does not specify which online formats are used, so please confirm available session options before booking. Registered or accredited professionals often adapt the same therapeutic tools to remote sessions, aiming to keep conversations focused and practical.