Alex Hayes
“With experience working in treatment settings in Cape Town, Belgium, and now London, my goal is to help people find recovery in the way I myself was helped by others.”
Alex is a BACP registered therapist with several years of experience in the field of addiction therapy. He began the path into helping people with his own entry into recovery from substance and gambling addiction.
Working from a person-centred and existential standpoint, Alex believes in helping people to understand themselves and the parts of self involved in their addiction, while working to build stability and structure back into lives ravaged by addiction and its consequences.
Alex has experience working with a variety of different addictive and problematic behaviours, including substance and alcohol misuse, gambling addiction, and eating disorders. He has also worked with clients seeking help with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and neurodiversity.
Integrating humanistic and existential approaches, Alex draws on a range of therapeutic methods including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy in order to help his clients in a way that he himself was helped by others.
Alex Hayes specialises in the following
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Your therapist works with you in individual sessions to help you identify and change negative thinking patterns.
Dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT)
A type of talking therapy designed to help people who feel emotions particularly intensely and who struggle to regulate their emotions.
Trauma therapy
A specialised form of psychotherapy designed to help individuals process and heal from distressing, life-threatening, or overwhelming events.
Motivational interviewing
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, goal-oriented counselling style designed to help individuals resolve mixed feelings about change.
Gambling addiction
Therapy for gambling addiction typically involves a mix of cognitive-behavioural techniques to change destructive thinking patterns, family counselling to repair relationships, and support groups.
Eating disorders
Talk therapy, also known as psychotherapy, is an important part of eating disorder treatment.
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