Kate Clare, BACP

Kate Clare is a BACP therapist in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and family difficulties, grief, low self-esteem and issues linked to ADHD. She also supports people with intimacy concerns, parenting strain, anger and depression.

She works from the view that each person knows their own story and has strengths to use in change. Sessions focus on noticing patterns of thought and behaviour and finding small, practical ways to respond differently. Conversations are direct and centred on what the person wants to change next.

Her approach includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centred ideas alongside Narrative and Psychodynamic elements. She also uses Solution-Focused techniques to set clear goals and track progress. These methods are used to help with trauma, relationship patterns, mood and repetitive thinking.

Kate has experience with neurodiversity both professionally and personally and pays attention to how that affects thinking, communication and daily routines. She works with people on topics such as attachment and abandonment, codependency, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness and intellectual disability.

Practical steps in sessions might include identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying new responses between meetings and reviewing what worked. The first appointment typically looks at what matters most now and what a useful next step would be.

How Kate uses different approaches and what online work looks like