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 that 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 Trained Practitioner
UKCP Accred. Existential Psychotherapist
Adv. Dip. Existential Psychotherapy
MA. Psychotherapy & Counselling
Adv. Dip. CBT

About Me

Please contact me via email - alex.c.sims@gmail.com

I am an IFS-trained existential psychotherapist with a 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?’ 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 Neurodifferent experience in a predominantly Neuronormative world.

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

I work with

• Couples
• Families
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

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