Denise Clarke, NCPS

Denise Clarke is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with NCPS listed as her credential. She brings five years of professional experience and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and relationship or family difficulties. She welcomes people who are taking a first step and aims to make that step easier to take.

Denise believes each person knows their own story and has strengths to draw on. She works collaboratively to build a clear plan tailored to the issues brought to sessions. Her way of working centres on listening without judgement and offering practical support to tackle problems here and now.

Her approach is influenced by client-centred ideas, attachment-focused thinking, and cognitive behavioural techniques. Mindfulness and trauma-focused methods are also part of her toolkit when they fit a person’s needs. Denise aims to use these methods in straightforward ways that clients can use between sessions.

Sessions are intended to feel respectful and compassionate, with emphasis on helping people regain steadiness and cope with life changes. She supports people dealing with intimacy concerns, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem and the stresses of caregiving or chronic illness. Denise also works with specific areas such as ADHD, body image and communication problems.

People can expect clear goals and practical steps alongside reflective discussion. Denise encourages autonomy and helps clients build tools they can keep using after therapy ends.

How Denise’s approaches translate to online counselling

Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. In practice this means looking at connection patterns and how early experiences influence current struggles, which can help with intimacy, abandonment and relationship worries.

Client-centred therapy emphasises a respectful, non-judgemental space where the person leads the pace and aims. It helps people feel heard and supported while they make sense of difficult moments.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. It includes practical exercises and simple experiments people can use between sessions to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and mood, or manage anger.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That choice can change as therapy progresses, and she adjusts plans to suit how things are going.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments around daily life, reduce travel time and allow follow-up check-ins or shorter conversations when needed. Many people find it helpful to use techniques learned in sessions straightaway in their usual routines.