About Chiara
Chiara Stoten offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or big life changes. She is approachable and listens first, helping clients work out what they want from counselling and how to reach those goals at a pace that feels right. Chiara uses a range of approaches to match each person.
She draws on client-centred ways of working to prioritise the person's experience, and psychodynamic ideas to look at how past events connect to present patterns.
How Chiara works
She also uses existential thinking to help people find meaning in difficult moments and solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable steps forward. Her practice reflects six years of experience and a background in community and educational settings. Chiara has worked with people dealing with trauma, dissociation, abuse, stress and relationship difficulties.
She has recent experience supporting autistic people and those with ADHD and understands how those differences can affect daily life. She also supports a wide range of other concerns, including addictions, grief, body image and parenting challenges. Chiara believes there is no single right path to healing and adapts her style to fit each person's needs and preferences.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Chiara is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which she lists as BACP.
Chiara lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Chiara works with
The areas below are the ones Chiara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Chiara's approaches work online
Chiara uses client-centred therapy and psychodynamic ideas to guide online work. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what the person says, helping people feel heard and make their own choices about change. Psychodynamic work looks at how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviours, which can be useful for patterns that repeat over time.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Chiara will talk with the person about their needs, goals and preferences and then choose methods together. This collaborative discussion helps decide whether more reflective psychodynamic work or practical solution-focused steps suit the situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling easier to fit into life. Video calls suit deeper conversations where reading facial cues matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good option for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter updates, brief coaching-style support or when typing feels more comfortable. These options give flexibility while keeping the therapeutic focus on progress and understanding.
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