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Alexandra Grimes, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefDepression
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Alexandra Grimes offers a steady, respectful presence for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain and other life challenges. She speaks plainly and listens closely, helping clients sort through feelings and decide what change looks like for them. Sessions move at each person’s pace and focus on practical steps alongside honest reflection.
Alexandra uses a client-centred style that keeps the person's experience at the heart of each session. She combines that with cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to understand how past patterns affect present choices, and on solution-focused work to identify small, concrete goals. Her approach is non-directive and collaborative. Clients choose what to bring to sessions and she helps follow that thread, offering questions, observations and practical strategies.
This mix suits people who want both emotional understanding and real-world tools for coping. Alexandra has five years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential. She works with a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, parenting and career issues, as well as ADHD and bipolar-related matters.
She also addresses specific focus areas such as attachment issues, blended family challenges and caregiver stress. All work is delivered online from the United Kingdom. Sessions can be by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, and are adapted to each person’s needs.
Alexandra supports people who prefer flexible formats and practical, compassionate help.
Approaches and online support for practical change
Alexandra uses client-centred therapy to keep each person’s experience central. That means she focuses on active listening, empathy and following what matters most to the client, helping people feel heard and understood.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together. CBT offers straightforward tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try new coping strategies, useful for anxiety, low mood and stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alexandra collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls allow visual connection and fuller interaction, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick reflections or when someone prefers writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to continue progress across different settings.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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