About Alex Carling (she/her)

Whether you’re looking for someone to work with for yourself, for a friend or family member or your employees, Alex’s focus and value in the therapeutic relationship, along with her dedication to continual growth in training, makes her a stand-out candidate.

Alex will help you heal and teach you along the way, so that when your therapy is over, you feel well, confident and knowledgeable.

You’re in the right place.

I’m Alex, and I offer trauma therapy, parenting counselling and clinical supervision face-to-face in Hull and online.

If you:

  • are wanting to get to the root of why you feel and think the way you do

  • need to speak with someone who understands child development, attachment and mental health about the children in your care

  • or if you are feeling stuck, are struggling to break habits or to understand why you keep making the same wrong decisions

I’m here to help you.

How I help

Parenting Counselling

Parenting counselling online is the right answer for you if you are a parent or carer who’s worried about the young people in your home and would like to understand better what’s happening, receive reassurance, and extra skills and tools to make positive, lasting changes to your children’s life and their relationship with you.

I no longer work directly with children under the age of 14 but I would be happy to work directly with you – the adult – to help you influence their environment and reality, so you can start to feel connected with them again, and them you.

I have over 20 years of working directly with children with disabilities and those who have experienced trauma. More recently my services have been used by One Adoption, supporting adopters and adoptees, I am also a Certified Adoption Support Counsellor which means I can legally work within the areas of adoption.

Trauma Therapy and Counselling

While I offer face-to-face therapy and parenting counselling from my practice in Hull, my trialled-and-tested online counselling service has proved successful for anyone who isn’t geographically close or does not feel comfortable with travelling or in-person sessions.

If you’re looking for help for yourself because you often feel;

  • distressed

  • anxious

  • stressed

  • depressed, or are

  • struggling to cope, and

  • looking to talk to someone,

I can be that person.

Sometimes, we inadvertently distance ourselves from the emotional issues or life choices that cause us discomfort or pain. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Through my counselling and psychotherapy sessions (online or face-to-face) I can help you overcome past issues and recognise your own negative cycles and thoughts. When you heal the body (what it’s holding from your life), the emotions and behaviours that are no longer serving you change too.

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 About me

Training and working as a psychotherapist has taught me that our history influences who we are.

But we can change.

Sometimes we just need a little help along the way, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I’m here to be the person that helps you. If you’ll let me.

As human beings, we all thrive on relationships. We all have a deeply-rooted desire for connection, but not all our relationships always work the way we’d like them to. Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of helping countless clients to make changes to the key relationships in their lives – starting with themselves.

Therapy during my training and beyond has given me the awareness, choice, and autonomy to primarily engage in what serves me well. It has taught me to accept and regulate my own emotions. And as my understanding and language developed, I became better at choosing when and how to communicate my own emotions.

Therapy has been the key to help me understand myself and better manage my relationships. And I’m proud to be able to give my clients the knowledge and the tools to do the same.

As a mum of two young children, I’m also passionate about helping other parents and carers to feel more connected to their children while navigating behaviours, feelings, and situations that can feel hard to understand and manage.

 Available Services

I offer a variety of services both online (remotely via email and Zoom) and face-to-face to my clients. If you want to find out more about my services, click on the links below for more information.

And if you have any questions or would like to discuss which service might be best suited to your needs, please get in touch.