Counsellor profile
Denise Clarke, NCPS
NCPS counsellor - Family and relationship concerns
Continue with DeniseAbout
- Attachment-based work
- CBT techniques
- Mindfulness practice
About Denise
Denise Clarke is an NCPS counsellor in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She works with adults who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. She also helps people facing relationship and family difficulties, and supports those coping with life changes and fatigue from caregiving.
Denise uses a person-centred style that treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on listening, practical problem-solving and building on strengths the client already has. She aims to help people identify small steps that ease pressure at home and in everyday routines.
Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as bipolar mood difficulties, ADHD, intimacy-related issues and sleeping problems. She is familiar with attachment and trauma-related patterns that can shape how people relate to partners or parents. Denise also addresses topics such as body image, blended family challenges and communication problems.
In practice she draws on approaches including attachment-based methods, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness. These help with symptoms and with changing unhelpful patterns of thinking or reacting. Denise also uses trauma-focused methods when past events are getting in the way of current relationships.
Sessions are intended to be straightforward and focused. New clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and then arrange an initial appointment. The work emphasises respect, practical options and helping people make choices that fit their everyday lives.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions fit
Denise uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current connection patterns. This approach can help when repeating relationship problems or old wounds make closeness difficult.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact. CBT provides practical techniques to manage anxiety, mood and disrupted sleep through small behavioural changes and different thinking strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise will discuss your goals and preferences and together you will decide which methods to try. That choice is revisited as the work continues so the approach matches what helps most.
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt sessions to practical needs, for example using quieter audio-only calls when video is difficult or shaping exercises to suit everyday routines.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. She also supports people with relationship and family difficulties and related concerns.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a person-centred approach that emphasises listening and practical problem-solving. The work focuses on clients' strengths and small steps they can take.
How much experience does she have?
She has five years of professional experience working with mental health and relationship issues in the UK.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She holds the NCPS credential and practises from the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options with the therapist before booking.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.