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Clement West, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 4 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesSelf esteemDepressionCoping with life changes
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Clement West is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who combines gentle enquiry with practical tools. He uses a kind, patient approach to help people notice patterns, build hope and take manageable steps towards change. Clement is a BACP counsellor with four years of practice experience and offers online sessions for a range of concerns.
He mainly helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and tough life transitions.
Background and approach
Relationship problems and difficulties with motivation are also common themes in his work. Clement supports people who are affected by chronic illness or cancer, body image worries, and neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Clement draws on client-centred work to put the person’s experience first and to build a trusting dialogue.
He also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding. Mindfulness practice is brought in to help with grounding and managing stressful moments. Sessions focus on increasing self-knowledge, finding small shifts that make a difference, and developing routines that sustain change.
He encourages responsibility and choice while keeping kindness towards oneself central to the process. Clement also offers group sessions called Enabling Positive Change that work on practical steps and peer support. People meet him online for video, phone, live chat or messaging sessions.
English is the language used in sessions and he accepts international clients. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a suitable time.
Approaches That Work Well Online
Clement uses client-centred work to keep the conversation focused on what matters to the individual, helping people feel heard and understood so they can explore what they want to change. Cognitive behavioural therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and test new ways of responding, which translates well to video and messaging formats. Mindfulness therapy offers simple grounding practices to manage stress and anxiety during and between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Clement will talk through what feels most useful, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to match methods to your goals and preferences rather than impose a single model.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let you work face to face without travel, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or work better with limited bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging suit quick updates or for people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep momentum between appointments.
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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
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
Contacting Clement
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