Clive Fisher, BACP

Clive Fisher is a BACP-registered counsellor with eight years' experience. He draws on personal experience of anxiety and depression to understand what it feels like to struggle. He aims to help people build self-awareness and develop practical ways to cope day to day.

Clive trained through a Diploma in Integrative Counselling at a BACP-accredited college. He works in private practice and in community mental health settings. In those roles he connects people with statutory and voluntary services and has experience as an independent mental health advocate and in occupational therapy.

His approach is person-centred and collaborative. Sessions focus on listening, understanding patterns, and finding steps that feel manageable. He adapts methods to match each person's needs rather than using a single fixed technique.

Clive often helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, anger and grief. He also supports those coping with trauma, abuse, relationship and family difficulties, and intimacy-related concerns. Other areas of focus include parenting stress, career change, bipolar, ADHD and compassion fatigue.

He also has experience working with attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, aging and geriatric concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, codependency, body image and sexual diversity topics such as BDSM and kink. Clive aims to create a steady working relationship so clients can explore practical changes.

Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients. Clive uses a mix of therapeutic ideas to suit each person and prioritises clear, simple steps people can try between sessions.

How Clive's approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how they affect feelings today. Online sessions can help people notice these patterns, repair mistrust and learn different ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the core and uses empathic listening to help people feel heard and understood; this can be especially useful when sorting through anxiety, low self-esteem or life changes. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression and coping strategies.

Choosing an approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest a blend of methods. That collaborative process means the plan can change if something is not helping.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and mirror an in-person meeting. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.