Clare Merchant
Supportive person-centred counsellor
About Clare
Clare Merchant works from a person-centred approach to counselling. She focuses on listening with empathy and supporting people as they make sense of difficult feelings. Clare uses simple tools like worksheets and discussion to help people identify what matters to them and set reachable goals.
She has three years of experience offering one-to-one support. Clare helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and loss, and work through depression and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing relationship strain, career pressures, parenting challenges, sleep problems and compassion fatigue. Clare can address concerns linked to trauma and abuse, addictions, anger and motivation, plus a range of family-related issues such as divorce, blended family dynamics and fatherhood questions. Other focus areas include body image, eating and food-related issues, fertility and cancer-related stress, ageing and caregiver strain.
Sessions combine open conversation with practical tasks. Worksheets are used to break complex problems into smaller steps. Clare frames progress as a series of small, achievable changes rather than sudden cures.
People who choose Clare work together with her to clarify aims and plan next steps. The emphasis is on being heard and on making practical adjustments that fit day-to-day life.
What Clare works with
How Clare works
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Sessions & fees
How Clare's person-centred approach works online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. Clare listens closely and follows what the client brings to sessions, helping people find their own solutions and build self-understanding. This approach suits stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns and low self-esteem because it focuses on the client's perspective and priorities.In practice Clare combines reflective conversation with simple, structured tasks. Worksheets and guided discussion help clarify what is causing distress and identify small, achievable steps forward. That combination is useful for managing mood, coping with life changes, tackling sleeping problems and addressing addictive behaviours.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Clare will talk with the client about their needs, goals and preferences and adapt the way she works accordingly. She aims to agree a clear plan together so each session feels relevant and practical.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different routines and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when preferred, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or for people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit counselling into work, care responsibilities or study commitments.
| 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
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
