About Clare
Clare Merchant is a counsellor who works from a person-centred perspective. She focuses on listening, offering empathy, and helping people make sense of difficult feelings. Her practice is straightforward and calm, aimed at people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Over three years she has helped people handle stress and anxiety, navigate grief and relationship strain, and manage depression and low self-esteem. She supports those coping with life changes, addictions, sleep difficulties, anger and workplace pressure.
Background and approach
Clare also works with concerns like family problems, bereavement, trauma and compassion fatigue. Her approach starts with listening closely to what matters to each person. Clare uses worksheets and conversation to identify what’s contributing to a person’s current wellbeing.
Together they map out practical steps towards clearer goals and small changes. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and expectations. Clare adapts pace and focus so people can feel understood and move at a steady rhythm.
She encourages clients to notice progress and to try manageable strategies between meetings. Clare is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers help in English and works with international clients by online formats.
People can expect a warm, patient style built on listening and practical planning.
Client-centred support delivered online
Clare works mainly from a client-centred perspective. This means sessions focus on listening, empathy and helping the person lead the pace of the work. It is useful for people who need someone to understand their experience and for issues such as anxiety, depression, grief and relationship strain.She also combines conversational tools and worksheets in sessions to help people pinpoint what is contributing to their difficulties and to plan small practical steps. That mix suits those who want both a compassionate space to talk and clear actions to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Clare will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and adapt methods as the work progresses. Clients and the therapist decide together which ways of working suit the situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Chat and messaging suit brief updates, flexible timing or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments, while keeping continuity between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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