Brenda Clarke-Wills BSc (Hons) Psyche Open MBACP , BACP

Brenda Clarke-Wills BSc (Hons) Psyche Open MBACP offers integrative, client-centred counselling from a warm and non-judgemental stance. She creates a supportive space for emotional and psychological exploration to help people clarify their current state and increase self-awareness. By respecting a person’s own intentions and inner knowing, she aims to guide clients toward understanding the origins of their patterns and discovering practical ways to build resilience and emotional regulation.

With an integrative approach grounded in psychodynamic thinking, cognitive behavioural techniques and person-centred principles, she tailors methods to suit each individual’s preferences and circumstances. Brenda draws on three years of experience, including training and volunteering, to blend insight-focused work with skills-based strategies that address unhelpful thinking and behaviour. She explains that change is possible even when things feel overwhelming, and she supports clients in developing tools for emotional healing and lasting, meaningful change.

Brenda works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, self-esteem and depression, as well as issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, codependency, trauma and abuse. She holds a BSc (Hons) - an undergraduate honours degree in psychology - and is a member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She welcomes enquiries and will respond openly and promptly to help prospective clients determine whether she is the right fit.

Integrative therapeutic approaches delivered online

Brenda uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relational patterns shape current feelings and interactions. This approach can help people understand attachment needs, improve emotional connection in relationships and address long-standing patterns of avoidance or anxiety.

She also employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a practical approach that links thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and develop coping strategies for anxiety, low mood and stress.

In some cases she draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to teach practical emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness techniques for people struggling with intense emotions or relationship difficulties.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Brenda works with each client to identify goals, preferences and strengths, and adapts methods over time so the therapy fits the person rather than forcing a single model.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video or phone, live chat and text-based messaging allow work to continue around work, caregiving or mobility needs. These options make it easier to access consistent support, try different formats and maintain momentum while fitting therapy into everyday life.