Alison Cannell, PACFA

Alison Cannell is a compassionate and experienced counsellor and psychotherapist who brings more than 13 years of direct clinical work alongside over 30 years of experience in behaviour change across diverse industries. She supports people facing life transitions, anxiety, depression, stress, and challenges in family and workplace relationships, and she has particular experience with childhood trauma and abuse, addictions, domestic and family violence, and crisis situations.

Alison works to create an open, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored safely and honestly, and she collaborates with clients to build practical skills for healthier communication, stronger self-worth, and more adaptive coping. Her practice includes focused support for relationship and family difficulties, attachment and caregiver stress, codependency, issues around commitment and control, dissociation, and the emotional impacts of separation and divorce.

She also addresses substance and behavioural addictions, feelings of emptiness, family-of-origin patterns, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and questions about life purpose. Alison lists PACFA as a professional credential - PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia). She encourages people to take the first step toward a more fulfilling life and offers steady support through that process.