About Me
I'm a Black genderqueer psychotherapist living with Autism and Epilepsy — and that shapes everything about how I work.
I believe everybody deserves therapy, especially if you are Black, a person of colour, disabled, or identify as LGBTQIA+. And even more so if you hold those identities intersectionally — because the weight of navigating systems not built for you is real, and it deserves to be taken seriously.
I discovered I'm Autistic later in life, and I understand the particular grief and joy of that: the pain of years without a framework, and the relief of finally being able to put together the missing pieces. I bring that understanding — not just theoretically — into the room.
I came to psychotherapy through a deliberate choice. After completing my MSc in Mental Health Psychology, I saw how easily people get pushed into diagnostic boxes that flatten rather than illuminate who they are. I wanted to work alongside people, not prescribe a path for them.
I trained as an integrative counsellor and therapist at The Minster Centre, one of the UK's leading training institutes, and hold a Level 7 BACP-accredited Diploma in Integrative Counselling. I am currently completing my Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy. I am also a BAATN anti-oppression trainer.
As a registered BACP member, I work to their ethical framework, with regular supervision and ongoing professional development.
Alongside my clinical work, I write. My work appears in BACP's Thresholds, poetry anthologies, and peer-reviewed research in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling — including work that won a European Trainee Essay Competition. Writing and therapy are, for me, two ways of doing the same thing: taking complex human experience seriously.
I believe you are the expert on your own life. My job is to help you hear yourself more clearly.
Publications:
Noël, A. (2026). Looking for belonging in my Black, disabled body. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2026.2623254
Alexandra Noël (2025). Reintegrating The Self. BACP Thresholds