Josephine Cleverly
Integrative counsellor for complex life challenges
About Josephine
Josephine Cleverly helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, life changes and grief. She also supports people dealing with addictions, parenting strain, intimacy issues, anger, career concerns and compassion fatigue. Josephine works with clients who have ADHD and a range of complex needs such as attachment difficulties, autism spectrum conditions and family problems.
Josephine has six years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation. She completed a BA in Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Lancashire and a Masters in Integrative Counselling in Melbourne, Australia.
Background and approach
Her background includes several years as a school counsellor at a large international school in Singapore. Her approach is integrative, drawing on a mix of proven therapeutic techniques. That means sessions may include talking, creative activities or play-based methods when these suit the person.
She aims to tailor each conversation to the client's pace and preferences. In practice Josephine works in a person-led way. She focuses on building a respectful, sensitive and compassionate space so people can talk through difficult feelings.
Together the client and Josephine shape goals and next steps based on what feels useful in the moment. People can expect straightforward language and practical support rather than jargon. The emphasis is on helping clients find manageable ways to cope, regain confidence and move towards clearer choices in relationships, work and family life.
What Josephine works with
Sessions & fees
How integrative approaches work online
Josephine uses an integrative framework that combines person-centred listening, cognitive-behavioural ideas and play or creative methods when these suit the client. Person-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting so a person feels heard and can find their own solutions. Cognitive-behavioural techniques look at how thoughts and behaviours interact and offer practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.She adapts these approaches collaboratively, checking in about what feels useful and adjusting methods to match goals and preferences. Clients and the therapist agree together which techniques to try and review what helps as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and face-to-face contact. Phone calls can fit into a lunch break or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection between sessions. These options help people access support around work, family life or while travelling, and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
