Chiara Stoten
Compassionate, adaptable counsellor for complex life issues
About Chiara
Chiara Stoten helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She aims to make sessions feel straightforward and practical. Chiara speaks plainly and meets people where they are, pacing work to match each person's needs.
Her background blends several approaches so she can adapt to different concerns. She uses Client-Centred Therapy to listen carefully and prioritise the person's own goals. Psychodynamic ideas help link past experiences to current patterns, while Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, achievable steps to change things.
Background and approach
Existential ideas are used when people are wrestling with meaning, purpose or big life questions. Chiara has six years of professional experience, including independent practice work in the United Kingdom and time supporting young people in schools and universities. She has particular experience with trauma, dissociation, abuse, depression, stress, anxiety and relational difficulties.
She also has growing experience with autism and ADHD. Sessions commonly address parenting strain, eating and sleeping concerns, intimacy and self-esteem, grief and bereavement, addictions, and career or life transitions. Chiara also offers support around attachment and abandonment experiences, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
She explains options plainly and helps people choose what to try next. Her registration is with the BACP, which is noted as a professional credential. Chiara works in English and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
What Chiara works with
How Chiara works
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Sessions & fees
How Chiara’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person, helping them name their goals and decide the pace of change. It is useful for anxiety, stress and issues around self-esteem or identity.Psychodynamic work pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and relationships, helping people notice repeated patterns and make different choices. This can be helpful with trauma, attachment concerns and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Chiara will discuss options and try methods collaboratively, adjusting what she uses to match a person’s needs, goals and preferences. People can feed back at any time so the plan stays relevant.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different routines. Video helps preserve face-to-face contact, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or flexible days. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and caring responsibilities while keeping continuity between sessions.
| 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
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
