About Chiara
Chiara Stoten is a BACP counsellor who supports people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She meets individuals where they are and focuses on what they want to get from therapy. Her style is practical and paced to each person so change happens at a comfortable speed.
Chiara draws on several ways of working, including client-centred, existential, psychodynamic and solution-focused approaches. She listens first, then helps people make connections between past events and present difficulties.
Background and approach
That can bring more clarity about why patterns repeat and what might help next. She has six years' experience overall, including independent practice work in the Bristol area. Her caseload has included people dealing with trauma, dissociation, abuse, depression, stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties.
She has also been gaining more recent experience supporting people on the autism spectrum and with attention deficit hyperactivity difficulties. Sessions are tailored to each person's goals and pace. Chiara aims to create a space where someone can talk frankly about grief, identity, parenting pressures, work stress or changes in mood and find practical ways to cope.
She believes there is no single right path to healing, only what fits the individual. People who choose Chiara often want a thoughtful listener who helps them spot patterns, set small goals and try new ways of coping. She works collaboratively to build clarity, confidence and more steady day-to-day routines.
How Chiara's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and priorities. Online sessions using this approach mean the counsellor listens closely and reflects what matters to the client, helping them decide the pace and direction of work.Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice and how people cope with life changes. In remote sessions this can help when someone is questioning identity, purpose or major transitions, offering time to talk through values and options.
Chiara will work with the client to identify which approach or combination feels most helpful. She treats the choice as a shared decision and adapts methods over time based on goals and what the person finds useful.
Online work offers practical benefits such as easier scheduling, fewer travel demands and a range of formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins, live chat suits shorter exchanges, and text-based messaging helps people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, study or caring responsibilities while keeping the focus on steady progress and practical coping strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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