About Patience
Patience Parker offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or relationship strain. She introduces short, practical conversations that help clients notice what matters most to them. Sessions aim to boost confidence and make everyday steps feel more manageable.
Patience uses a client-centred way of working. That means she listens without judgement and follows the person's pace. Conversations focus on the person's experience, values and choices rather than a set plan.
How Patience works
This approach can be helpful for grief, self-esteem difficulties and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with addiction and related challenges like substance use and control issues. Practical topics such as communication problems, commitment doubts and family-of-origin issues often come up in sessions.
Patience helps people talk through these concerns and consider new ways to respond. Other areas she addresses include chronic pain, illness and disability, caregiver stress, body image and fertility worries. She works to create a respectful space where people feel heard and valued.
That often makes it easier to face difficult feelings. Patience holds a BACP credential, which is shown here as BACP. She has four years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Patience lists one way of working on the entry:
What Patience works with
The areas below are the ones Patience selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Client-centred care delivered online
Patience works from a client-centred approach that places the person's experience at the heart of sessions. She listens attentively and follows what the client brings, helping them to make sense of their feelings and priorities. This approach is suited to worries like anxiety, low self-esteem, grief and trauma-related concerns.The emphasis in client-centred work is on building a supportive relationship where the client feels heard and respected. Patience will work collaboratively to find the right focus and pace, checking in about goals and adjusting the approach as needs change. Finding the best therapeutic fit is part of the process and she helps clients decide what feels most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues in conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit ongoing, flexible contact and can fit around work or caregiving schedules. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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