About Clare
Clare Middleton is a counsellor who trained and qualified in the United Kingdom and brings three years of professional experience to her practice. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety, and those facing relationship difficulties, family conflict, grief or loss. Clare aims to make the first step towards change feel manageable and supportive.
Clare creates an open, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through their thoughts and emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps that fit day-to-day life as well as on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating. She encourages small, achievable changes rather than sudden, drastic shifts. Common issues Clare addresses include low mood, coping with life changes, addictive behaviours and challenges with intimacy and self-esteem.
She also works with concerns such as sleep and eating difficulties, parenting stress, and career-related strain. Clare pays attention to how past experiences like abandonment or attachment problems can shape current reactions. Her approach is collaborative and paced to the client.
Clare listens for what matters most to each person and adapts conversations to meet those priorities. The aim is practical progress that feels relevant to everyday life. Clare is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She offers sessions in English and is available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Clare uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in a practical way to help with anxiety, stress and relationship concerns. One approach she commonly uses is short-term, goal-focused work that breaks larger problems into manageable steps and helps clients build new routines and coping strategies. This style is useful for sleep, stress, low mood and practical life changes.Another common strand emphasises understanding how past attachments and experiences shape current reactions. This helps people make sense of recurring patterns in relationships, abandonment fears and communication problems so they can try different responses in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Clare collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. She checks in regularly to see what is helping and adapts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and practical needs. Video calls can mirror a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quicker check-ins and messaging works well for brief reflections or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family and travel.
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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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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