Brenda Clarke-Wills BSc (Hons) Psyche Open MBACP
Calm, practical counselling for emotional struggles
About Brenda
Brenda Clarke-Wills BSc (Hons) Psyche Open MBACP helps people facing stress, anxiety, low mood, grief and relationship difficulties. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space to talk and to make sense of painful feelings. Brenda writes plainly and listens closely so people feel heard from the first session.
Brenda works in a way that centres the individual. She supports people to identify what matters to them and to build simple, usable tools for everyday life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include looking at how past experiences shape current reactions and learning ways to manage intense emotions day to day. Her approach mixes different methods to suit each person. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at early relationship patterns, cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and dialectical skills to help with self-regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness is used to develop present-moment awareness and reduce rumination. Brenda has three years of experience including training and volunteering. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - which appears after her name as a credential.
She offers work focused on self-esteem, bereavement, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems and many related concerns. Sessions are offered in English and Brenda accepts international clients. She aims to be open and straightforward about how she works, and welcomes questions so people can decide whether her style feels right for them.
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Sessions & fees
How attachment, CBT and DBT work online
Brenda uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect today's reactions, helping people notice repeated habits and build safer ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical behaviour therapy offers practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving tolerance for distress and strengthening self-regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Brenda will discuss goals and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try first. She treats treatment choice as a collaboration and adjusts methods as needs change over time.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls let people keep visual contact, phone sessions can fit into a short break, and text or chat options work well for ongoing check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to attend from different time zones and to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
