Please note: Due to serious health issues Alison is unable to take new referrals. Please contact one of her colleagues below.

Hi, my name is Alison Ball. My colleagues and myself are Psychotherapists originally trained in Melbourne Australia in the mid-1980's and onwards. My colleagues tell you about themselves and their work on their own pages. After training and working as a Social Worker for many years I, personally have worked in my private Psychotherapy practice in Melbourne Australia since 1986.

My phone contact is 0430 621 787 and from January 2021 my place of work for face to face consultations will be in Pakenham, Cardinia Shire though I do continue to see known clients by phone, Skype or Zoom. Pakenham is convenient enough for clients from the Outer Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne, Berwick or say from Warragul and so long as you avoid peak hour traffic it is actually not so far away. You also do have the added benefit of a rural setting. I no longer have a permanent room to work from in Kew or at 223 Camberwell Road, Hawthorn East where I could be found from 2012. These days I mostly work with individual adults in short term counselling or less intensive psychotherapy.

You can click here if you wish to make a booking enquiry with me personally now and you can click on my Blog if you want to see current thoughts from myself and my colleagues. My colleagues work in other Melbourne suburbs as below under their photographs.

All of us have a continuing commitment to life-long learning so, as well as former careers and much life experience, we have all, before and since qualifying as psychotherapists, participated in numerous personal and professional development courses, workshops, seminars, conferences and lecture series as well as our own therapy and on-going supervision.
Although our speciality is Psychotherapy and we generally call ourselves Psychotherapists we are also known as Counsellors or Therapists and we certainly do practice counselling and therapy.

Some of the most common things people come to see us for are: bodily symptoms they believe may have, at least partially, a psychological or emotional base; grief; anxiety issues; developmental trauma; family issues and issues that have not resolved with the strategies learned through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.