Alexia Kendall, BACP

Alexia Kendall is an integrative psychotherapist who combines formal training and practical experience to help people navigate difficult life events. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy and is an accredited member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. With nine years of clinical experience, Alexia has worked with adults, young people aged 14 to 25, university students and couples, offering both short-term and longer-term therapy.

Her clinical focus includes stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and coping with life changes. She also works with issues such as attachment and abandonment, body image, addiction, domestic violence, bereavement, cancer and end-of-life concerns, relationship and communication problems, and feelings of emptiness or shame. Alexia’s practice addresses a broad range of difficulties including suicide prevention, crisis intervention and sexuality and gender matters.

Alexia uses a range of therapeutic methods including psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), solution-focused techniques and Gestalt approaches, while primarily drawing on a humanistic, person-centred orientation. She emphasises a trusting, respectful therapeutic relationship and adopts a non-directive, client-led stance, allowing individuals to explore their experience at their own pace. Through active listening, reflection and empathy she aims to support and empower people to identify options, build self-worth and make meaningful change.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online care

Alexia often uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical strategies for managing symptoms such as anxiety, low mood and stress. CBT focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers structured techniques to support change.

She also employs solution-focused methods that concentrate on a person’s strengths and short-term goals, helping clients build small, achievable steps toward the future they want. Alongside these, Alexia’s person-centred, humanistic orientation creates space for people to explore their experience at their own pace and to feel heard and valued during the process.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Alexia collaborates with each person to identify which techniques fit their needs, goals and preferences, adjusting methods over time so therapy remains relevant and effective. Registered professionals and therapists often blend approaches in this way to tailor care.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for this style of work - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging make sessions more accessible and easier to fit around daily life. These options allow people to receive consistent support from home, university or work and to choose the format that feels most comfortable for them.