Claire Chalcraft-Pears MBACP

About me

My journey to becoming a counsellor started some years ago, when I struggled to make sense of my previous life experiences and how they were still affecting my life decisions. I sought help from a counsellor who offered me an accepting and non-judgemental environment. With their compassion and therapeutic assistance, I was able to understand my life and re-evaluate my future and life existence. This experience laid the foundation for commencing my counselling and psychotherapy training and the ending of my 16 year career in Finance Banking. These experiences now contribute and continue to inform my practice today.

I offer Integrative counselling to adults from the Turner Centre in Colchester, covering a wide range of issues.

We all have times when we feel life is a struggle and we find it difficult to cope!

Are you struggling with issues at the moment and can't see how things will change?

Are you struggling with your relationships?

Do you feel nobody listens or understands you?

Talking things through and exploring your issues with a qualified counsellor can help. Through counselling I can offer a calm, accepting and non-judgemental environment for you to express your issues, past or present.

By exploring painful and difficult experiences, we can sometimes make sense of what happened and understand what affect it may still be having on us.

My aim is to listen, to understand and to help you reach your potential.