Melissa Clarke
Compassionate integrative therapy for everyday worries
About Melissa
Melissa Clarke is a counsellor with 12 years of clinical experience. She holds BACP registration, a degree in counselling, and a masters in Mental Health Science. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Melissa creates a calm space where people can talk honestly about what is worrying them. Melissa uses a blend of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape present patterns.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioural techniques help break unhelpful thinking and behaviour cycles. Mindfulness practices are used to build steadiness and reduce overwhelm. Her focus includes stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and relationship difficulties.
Melissa also works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, infidelity and communication problems. Practical tools and short exercises are used alongside talking in sessions. Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
She provides structured 12-session work for some clients, with a review at session six and the option to request further sessions if needed. Messages sent between sessions are responded to within 24 hours on weekdays during specified hours. Melissa keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused.
She helps people identify small changes that make daily life easier. The tone in sessions is supportive and clear, with worksheets and short activities offered when they are useful.
What Melissa works with
How Melissa works
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Sessions & fees
How attachment, CBT and mindfulness work online
Attachment-based work looks at patterns rooted in earlier relationships and helps people notice how those patterns affect current interactions and emotional responses. It can be useful for worries about closeness, abandonment or communication problems.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and testing small experiments to change them. It is practical for anxiety, low mood and habitual reactions that cause difficulty.
Mindfulness therapy teaches skills to notice thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept away. Short breathing or grounding exercises can reduce overwhelm and make it easier to think clearly between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods collaboratively. Sessions can blend these styles so the plan fits the person rather than the other way round.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging to give flexibility. Video lets therapists see facial cues and use worksheets, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging suits short check-ins or written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel, and to continue work while based in different places.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
