Alex Claremont

Alex is warm, genuine and compassionate with a diverse experience working to support people to create meaningful changes in their lives. Alex's therapeutic style combines practicality, depth and nuance - walking beside you during difficult times. Alex works using evidence-based integrative psychotherapies. She specialises in working with clients experiencing addiction and substance dependancy, difficulty managing emotions, developmental trauma and relationship challenges. Alex works from a psychodynamic and relational approach and has received training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS also known as 'parts work,) and Somatic Experiencing (SE). She is also strongly influenced by the Conversational Model and the work of Russell Meares. 

 

Alex’s journey began a decade ago with volunteering in community recovery settings, where she developed a profound love for supporting others with the complexities of the human experience. She has gone on to have a vibrant and varied professional career, using her skills in residential rehabilitations settings, crisis support, eating disorder specialist services, rural and regional outreach, non-for-profit organisations, private practice and government funded projects. Alex is also on staff as a lecturer and unit coordinator for Ikon institute, teaching in both Bachelor and Masters programs.

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Through the integration of lived experience, professional practice and a strong theoretical background Alex became passionate about addressing the gaps between theory and practice. ​Alex's natural warmth and engaging style integrates current research from the fields of the medical field, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and psychotherapy in a way that digestible and practical. She is passionate about therapy that supports genuine change and reconnects people to their sense of inherent worth and aliveness.