Clare Millichap, BACP

Clare Millichap is a counsellor with more than 20 years' experience helping people through difficult times. She works from the United Kingdom and supports people living in the UK. Clare offers a calm, compassionate space for someone who feels overwhelmed, stuck, or alone.

She helps with practical struggles like stress, anxiety, low mood, sleep and eating difficulties, and parenting strain. Clare also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, self-esteem and relationship concerns. She pays attention to attachment, abandonment and issues linked to conditions such as autism and ADHD.

Clare uses an integrative, evidence-based approach. She tailors her work to each person, drawing on different therapeutic techniques to meet their needs. Sessions are client-led and relationship-focused, with sensitivity to trauma and its effects.

For people who want it, Clare can include a Christian perspective in sessions while welcoming people of all beliefs and identities. She listens carefully and aims to help people feel heard and understood before moving on to practical steps.

Therapy with Clare usually moves at the client’s pace. She supports people to make sense of difficult feelings, rebuild resilience and find clearer ways forward. Her style is gentle, honest and grounded in everyday language, so sessions stay practical and relevant.

To begin, a simple matching and scheduling process connects people to Clare for video, phone, chat or messaging sessions based on their needs and preferences.

How Clare adapts therapeutic approaches for online work

Clare draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to work well online. One common approach she uses focuses on building a trusting relationship first so people feel heard and safe to talk about difficult experiences. This helps with trauma, grief and long-standing emotional pain.

Another approach emphasises practical coping strategies and short-term skills work. These techniques help with anxiety, stress, sleep and everyday problems by teaching breathing, planning and small behavioural steps that can be practised between sessions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Clare will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then try methods that suit their needs. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or limited local options. Video calls let the therapist and client see one another for a fuller conversation, phone sessions can be done with lower bandwidth, and live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family or other routines while still getting consistent support.