Patience Parker
Client-centred counsellor for stress and relationships
About Patience
Patience Parker offers calm, steady support for people struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship strain. She explains things simply and listens without judgement. Her approach aims to help people feel heard and more confident in themselves and their relationships.
Patience uses a client-centred way of working that focuses on the person rather than labels. Sessions are led by what each person brings, with the counsellor reflecting back thoughts and feelings to help the client make sense of them.
Background and approach
This style suits people who want a respectful, non-directive space to talk things through. She has four years' experience helping people cope with grief, addiction, family problems, trauma and abuse, and issues with self-esteem. Additional areas she supports include attachment difficulties, body image, caregiver stress, and chronic illness and pain.
Patience also works with common concerns such as communication problems, commitment worries, guilt and forgiveness. People can expect straightforward conversation and practical pacing rather than technical jargon. Patience aims to build trust so clients can explore difficult memories and everyday stresses at a pace that feels manageable.
Over time the focus is often on clearer thinking, steadier mood and improved interactions with others. Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally. She holds BACP accreditation and brings a patient, encouraging presence to each session.
What Patience works with
How Patience works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred support through online therapy
Client-centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience. The counsellor listens closely, reflects feelings and helps the client find their own solutions. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood, relationship worries and grief by giving space to make sense of difficult emotions.Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Patience will talk with each person about their goals, needs and preferences and together they will decide how to proceed. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they feel useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for in-depth conversations, phone may be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets people check in quickly, and messaging supports short updates between sessions. These options give flexibility and help people keep continuity of care across different locations and schedules.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
