Denise Clarkson-James
Supportive counsellor for life and relationship challenges
About Denise
Denise Clarkson-James is a counsellor with seven years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration, and she focuses on helping people facing stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, family conflict, trauma and abuse, depression, and addiction. Denise aims to make it easier to say the hard things and to begin work towards change.
Denise creates a calm space where people can speak openly about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
She encourages honesty and gentle self-reflection rather than quick fixes. Sessions are practical and focused on what the person wants to achieve next. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including grief, eating and self-esteem problems, sexuality and LGBT issues, and panic attacks.
She also helps with attachment difficulties, blended family challenges, caregiver strain, and communication problems. Denise pays attention to how life events and relationships shape current emotions and behaviour. People meet Denise for support with divorce and separation, guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation or loneliness, and questions about life purpose and midlife change.
She also works with men's issues and difficulties around social anxiety and phobia. Denise uses approaches grounded in evidence and adapts them to each person's needs. Her style is steady and encouraging.
She supports clients in finding practical steps forward and building on strengths. Getting started involves a clear first step and ongoing planning that fits each person's life and goals.
What Denise works with
Sessions & fees
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online therapy
Denise works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding feelings and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding to stress and anxiety, which can reduce panic and social fears. Another approach looks at relationships and attachment, helping people understand how past and present relationships affect current reactions and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. She will explain options, try different strategies, and adjust the plan as therapy progresses so the approach remains useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls suit conversations where seeing facial cues helps, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, written reflection, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to work around work, caregiving and travel 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
