Alan Clucas
Supportive client-centred counsellor
About Alan
Alan Clucas works from a client-centred perspective. He believes people know their own story and that therapy is a collaborative space. He aims to support practical change and to build on existing strengths.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and he offers a calm, straightforward approach to help people move forward. With 12 years of experience in the United Kingdom, Alan has supported people facing addictions and substance use concerns.
Background and approach
He also helps those dealing with trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression. His practice covers stress, life changes and a wide range of relationship and identity questions including LGBT issues and intimacy-related worries. Alan uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change.
He also draws on somatic therapy to help people notice how emotions show up in their bodies. Together these approaches aim to make coping skills more practical and grounded in everyday life. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that fit into daily routines.
He can work with issues such as sleep and eating difficulties, anger and self-esteem, and career or life-purpose concerns. Additional areas of focus include grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue and problems connected to military service. Alan holds BACP registration, which is listed as his credential.
He offers work in English and accepts international clients for online sessions. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
What Alan works with
How Alan works
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Listed by Alan among the ways they work.
Listed by Alan among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How client-centred and somatic approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps the person find their own solutions; this is helpful for relationship concerns, anxiety and life changes.Motivational Interviewing helps people weigh their reasons for change and find personal motivation. It is often used for addictions, substance use issues and behaviour change, and it works well when someone is unsure about their next steps.
Somatic Therapy helps people notice bodily signals linked to emotion and stress. Simple body-awareness exercises and gentle tracking of sensations can make emotional material easier to work with and help with trauma-related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk through goals, preferences and practical needs and then try methods that fit the person. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be adapted over time.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs, live chat can suit quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, while keeping the focus on accessible, goal-focused support.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
