Alexandra Wolfe

I'm warm, pretty informal, and I'd rather be honest with you than sit back and say nothing. I've got clear boundaries, but I hold them in a relaxed, human way — this isn't going to feel like a clinical appointment. A lot of what I care about is helping your nervous system actually settle, not just talking around a problem. I'm IFS-informed (internal family systems- if you havn't heard of it I can explain it when we meet), which shapes how I think about the different parts of ourselves — the parts that cope, the parts that protect, the parts that get exhausted from holding everything together. And I'm a Dramatherapist, meaning I sometimes draw on creative approaches — storytelling, metaphor, objects, play — where they might help something find a shape it couldn't find in words alone. That said, plenty of our work will simply be talking, and there's never any expectation to engage creatively if it's not your thing. We'll work out together what actually resonates with you. What stays constant, whatever tools we use, is the aim: getting to know the real you, making sense of what you've been carrying, and finding a way of relating to it that feels less exhausting than the way you're managing it now.

I trained at the University of Roehampton, graduating in 2019 with an MA in Dramatherapy, and I'm registered with the HCPC. I've spent over ten years working therapeutically with children, young people, adults and families, across a real mix of settings — young carers, refugees, survivors of stalking and sexual abuse, neurodivergent young people, trans and non-binary young people, and people whose lives (their own, or their family's) have been shaped by drug and alcohol use. For three years I worked as a Young Person's Therapist at The Oasis Project, supporting 16–25 year olds experiencing problematic alcohol and substance use, alongside children and young people aged 5–18 whose families were affected by drug and alcohol use. Many of the people I worked with were neurodivergent, and a lot had experienced complex trauma in childhood. Alongside my clinical work, I've spent five years facilitating creative groups for parents and babies aged 0–3, including First/Second Spun Glass Theatre and The Indigo Project with Stone Soup — which, combined with years supporting neurodivergent young people, shapes how I now work with neurodivergent mothers in particular, for whom parenting has a way of exposing difficulties that used to be manageable or invisible. I've worked extensively with autistic and ADHD children, young people and their families. What matters most to me is understanding each person as themselves, rather than starting from a diagnosis or a label. I bring curiosity, warmth and creativity to the work.