About Alpha
Alpha Ponce supports people experiencing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment, body image, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, dissociation, and isolation. She speaks English and Spanish and offers a calm, steady presence for people seeking change.
Her work uses body-focused, evidence-based techniques that notice how emotions show up in the nervous system and the body.
How Alpha works
Sessions are grounded in a gentle, trauma-informed style that values safety and respect. She aims to help people feel more aware of their inner experience and to rebuild a sense of self that feels reliable. Alpha draws on approaches that attend to bodily sensations and to attachment patterns to reduce overwhelm and build emotional regulation.
She helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck and practices ways to respond differently in relationships. The focus is both on feeling better day to day and on making lasting changes in how someone relates to themselves and others. Her practice blends practical exercises with reflective conversation, so people learn tools they can use between sessions.
She encourages steady, compassionate pacing and works at the client's own tempo. Reaching out can be hard, and she supports each person through that first step and beyond. Alpha is credentialled with PACFA and has eight years of professional experience working in Australia.
People who are interested are asked to follow the site's process to match and schedule a first appointment.
What Alpha works with
The areas below are the ones Alpha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How body-aware approaches translate to online therapy
Alpha uses evidence-based, body-oriented methods that attend to bodily sensation and attachment patterns. Sensorimotor-style work focuses on noticing physical sensations and small movement choices to help reduce overwhelm and build new ways of responding to stress. Compassionate, inquiry-based approaches emphasise kind curiosity about thoughts and feelings to reduce self-criticism and increase emotional clarity.Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to choose approaches that fit their needs, goals and comfort level. Together they set the pace and review what helps between sessions.
Session formats are not specified here, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, keep appointments when travel is difficult and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also reduce the need to arrange childcare or time off work, helping people maintain continuity of care while juggling daily responsibilities.
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A practical next step
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