About Denise
Denise Clarke is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and the credential NCPS. She focuses on practical support for common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Denise aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and supportive.
She believes people know their story best and brings a respectful, non-judgemental stance to sessions. Denise works collaboratively to build a straightforward plan that matches each person's needs.
How Denise works
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Her approach is person-centred and attachment-informed, which means she listens first and follows what matters to the individual. Therapy often includes checking how thoughts and behaviours affect mood, and trying small changes to see what helps.
Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce reactivity and to support better sleep and coping in stressful moments. Denise also addresses relationship and family issues from the perspective of individual experience and communication patterns. She helps people talk through intimacy concerns, commitment worries, codependency and communication problems.
She offers practical steps for handling grief, compassion fatigue and chronic health challenges. Clients can expect clear goals, gentle challenge and steady encouragement. Denise supports people working through life changes and emotional pain, helping them find strategies that fit their everyday life.
The emphasis is on practical, achievable progress rather than jargon.
Denise lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Denise works with
The areas below are the ones Denise selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Denise’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. Online sessions let the counsellor and client notice patterns in how people relate, then try different ways of communicating and responding. This approach can help with intimacy concerns, attachment issues and relationship worries.Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens, reflects and supports personal choice so clients can find their own solutions. This method is useful for grief, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Denise will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt techniques over time. Together the client and counsellor assess what works and change the plan if needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging is useful for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties and busy schedules while using the therapeutic methods described above.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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