Clive Burks BSc. Dip. Couns. BACP Accredited

About me

Are you in need of help? Someone you can talk openly to about your difficulties, someone who is empathic, experienced, non judgemental, knowledgeable?

Could you benefit from a safe confidential place to work through how you are feeling, thinking and behaving?

I have been a practising counsellor in Bath for the past 23 years. I am an Accredited Counsellor with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) since 2001. I am committed to providing Counselling in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment.

The past and our unconscious can also affect how we think, feel and behave in the present. I am skilled in helping you make sense of how the past and your unconscious could be affecting you in the present. The unconscious can also be represented by sensations and feelings in the body.

Below are some of the issues I work with on a regular basis:

• Stress Management
• Relationships and Family Problems
• Panic Attacks
• Anxiety
• Conflict Resolution and Mediation
• Bereavement
• Career and Work Issues
• Redundancy
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD
• Depression
• Addiction.
• Sexuality.
• Trauma
• Performance Anxiety including sports problems.

How can I help?

As a counsellor and therapist I work with both individuals and couples. I work in an interactive and collaborative manner which helps develop trust and provides you with information and insights that you can utilise to address the issues you are facing. By identifying and naming feelings and exploring where they come from you can calm your mind and body and find ways to reframe your thinking.

I can help you to identify longings and needs you may be unaware of beneath your feelings. I can also help you develop your aware witnessing self so that you can support yourself outside of sessions. I draw upon Neuroscience research to inform how I work.

Individual Counselling

• Short Term - 4 to 8 sessions usually around a specific issue with the option of extending to longer term if required.
• Longer Term - More open ended sessions providing on going support and an opportunity to explore and work through issues in more depth.

Couples Counselling

This offers an opportunity for couples to communicate more openly and constructively and to explore surface and underlying issues causing difficulties. From this greater understanding of each others feelings and needs and relationship dynamics changes can happen, for example more constructive communication and greater acceptance and tolerance of each other.

I am experienced in building a good working relationship with a wide variety of individuals having worked for 23 years as a professional counsellor in a variety of different settings and before that working as a trainer and before that as a chartered surveyor.

Taking the next step...

Please contact me if you would like to find out more about how I work and how I may be able to help you move through the difficulties you are experiencing. Alternatively look on my website

I offer an initial session at my normal fee and at the end of the session we will discuss whether we both feel further sessions would be helpful or not. I do offer some concessions for low income clients.

Sessions take place at Newbridge Bath BA1 3RR free car parking is available.