About me
As an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist I bring a compassionate and sensitive approach to our work together. I offer warmth and understanding, and trust that with support you can find your own answers and solutions.
Counselling can give you a safe place to share your concerns. You can talk in confidence about feelings that may feel confusing or overwhelming, and have an opportunity to find your own way and bring meaning to your experience.
We can include the body in our work together, using focusing, polyvagal theory and visualisations, as well as the possibility of working creatively with drawing and making to help us examine an issue or absorb an insight.
I bring an ongoing and developing awareness of diversity and systemic inequalities and have particular experience working with the LGBTQ community and neurodiversity, as well as issues around race, disability and class.
I am committed to understanding the ways privilege and rank shape our perspective and how we are perceived by others, and aim to offer a respectful environment that welcomes the complexity of our individual experience.
Alongside providing a warm and welcoming indoor setting, we can go outside and bring nature and the environment into the work. I have training in shamanic approaches, the creative arts and include the body and neuroception in the healing process.
Continuing professional development informs my practice and have recently studied Layla Saad's "Me and White Supremacy" in a group setting, Robin and Joan Shohet's 7-eyed model of supervision and Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing. Some of the approaches that inspire me include Jungian Psychology, Deb Dana on polyvegal theory ("Befriending your Nervous System") and Ann Weiser Cornell ("The Power of Focusing" and "Untangling"). And of course, Carl Roger's Person-Centred Approach is a constant guide and foundation for my way of working.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please get in touch if you would like to book an initial session.
Training, qualifications & experience
2026 'Counselling Children and Young People': 2 day training programme with Noah's Ark Centre, Halifax, UK
2025 Centre for Supervision and Team Development (CSTD): Module Two: 7-Eyed Model, Module Three: Group Supervision
2024 Centre for Supervision and Team Development (CSTD): Module One: Core Supervision, Module Two: 7-Eyed Model, Module Three: Group Supervision
2020 Post Grad. Dip. Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy Studies (Supervisor) (Two-year training)
2019 OSCT4 Online Counselling Certificate Webcam and Voice
2018 Certificate Wild Therapy (One-year training)
2013 Dip. Person-Centred Counselling accredited by the National Counselling Society (Two-year training)
2008 Shamanic Therapy and the Creative Arts, Coventina School of Shamanic Therapy, Northumberland (Three-year training)
2006 MA Filmmaking
1989 BA (Hons) Fine Art
Registered Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).
I am fully insured and a registered member of BACP (no. 752873). I abide by their code of ethics and work to the highest ethical standards.
Registered member of ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) Reference number: ZA504053
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I am currently doing an additional 4 - module supervision training with Robin and Joan Shohet and have completed the first three modules.
Please have a look at my website for more information about how I work.
www.clarepearlcounselling.co.uk
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Sessions last for up to one hour and cost between £60.00 and £80.00.
The first session gives us a chance to get to know each other and decide if we want to continue working together and costs £60.00
We can decide together how many sessions you will need and will review our progress at regular intervals.
I have sessions available during the day and some evenings. Please send me an email to set up the first appointment, or give me a call to talk through any questions. I look forward to hearing from you.
Payment
Payment by cash or bank transfer on the same day you have your session please.
When I work
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Further information
I mainly work in a dedicated garden therapy space, but also offer sessions outdoors and online. Please contact me to discuss your preferences.
