Alessio Tonato, BACP

Alessio Tonato is a psychotherapeutic counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). He offers talk therapy that aims to support personal and professional growth. Sessions are offered in English, French and Italian.

Alessio uses a holistic, dialogic style that focuses on raising awareness. He helps people notice patterns in how they think and behave. The aim is to open up new, more helpful options for daily life and work.

In practice he works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and low self-esteem. He also supports people facing depression, family problems, trauma and anger. Career changes and coping with life transitions are common topics in sessions.

Alessio pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes, and to issues like codependency, commitment anxiety and communication breakdowns. He helps clients look at control, dependency, impulsivity and the effects of infidelity or separation in their relationships.

His approach blends attachment-based ideas with mindfulness and somatic work. That means talking together while also noticing bodily sensations and present-moment experience. The focus is practical: identify unhelpful patterns, try small changes in the room, and bring them back into everyday life.

How Alessio's approaches work online and in conversation

Alessio draws on attachment-based ideas and mindfulness alongside somatic work to guide sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand why they react in certain ways in close relationships. Mindfulness practice focuses on present-moment awareness, teaching simple attention skills to reduce rumination and manage anxiety. Somatic work encourages noticing bodily sensations and how emotions show up in the body, which can help when words alone don’t capture what someone is feeling.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Alessio works collaboratively with each person to identify what feels useful, then adapts sessions to match goals and preferences. That may mean blending talking, mindfulness exercises and body-focused noticing across appointments.

If you are considering online therapy, check the session formats available before booking. Confirm which formats the therapist currently offers so you know how sessions will be run. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow gentler, shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports continuing work through life changes when attending in person is difficult.