My Approach

I believe our maladaptive coping mechanisms are frequently creative and courageous attempts at problem-solving.

Working collaboratively, with empathy and radical compassion, I ground the work in deepening awareness, responsibility and choice, and freedom. Working from the position that it is rarely the individual who is broken, but rather the world is hostile to difference, I attend to my client’s internal world and their wider relationships.

I support clients in making sense of what helps and what hinders in the pursuit of authenticity and happiness.

IFS Informed Practitioner
UKCP Accred. Existential Psychotherapist.
MA. Psychotherapy & Counselling
Adv. Dip. Existential Psychotherapy
Adv. Dip. CBT

About Me

I am an existential psychotherapist with specific interest in relationships, emotional literacy, and how we make sense of our engagement with the world. A core question for therapy is ‘how do I want to be?’ and to understand this, it means looking at our experience and how this shapes our thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

I have personal experience of both ADHD and Autism. I therefore have a particular sensitivity to the Neurodivergent experience in a predominantly Neurotypical world.

In a world of increasing polarities, I am interested in experiences of difference and how we might best relate to this.

Please email me if you would like to arrange a preliminary chemistry session:
alex.c.sims@gmail.com

If you would like to reach me by phone, please do so only by messaging: 07725 875 398

I work with

• Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Existential Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• ADHD
• Age-related Issues
• AIDS/HIV
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Bulimia
• Chronic Illness
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Disability
• Eating Disorders
• Family
• Gender
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Parents
• Race Issues
• Relationships
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Suicide
• Transgender