Clare Millichap, BACP

Clare Millichap is a qualified, BACP-registered counsellor with more than 20 years of clinical experience supporting people through a wide range of life challenges. Based in the United Kingdom, she works exclusively with clients who are currently living in the UK and draws on an integrative, evidence-informed approach to tailor support to each person’s needs.

Clare believes that reaching out for help is a sign of strength and self-awareness. While friends and family can offer important support, there are times when professional counselling provides a different kind of space - one for focused reflection, emotional processing, and practical coping. Her work emphasises a client-led, relational, and trauma-informed stance that aims to help people regain clarity, self-acceptance, and resilience.

She supports people navigating anxiety, low mood, stress, grief and loss, low self-worth, trauma, abuse, life changes, and difficulties that are harder to name. For those who would like it, Clare also offers counselling from a Christian perspective while welcoming clients of all beliefs and identities. Sessions are conducted with care, sensitivity, and respect. Clients often say they appreciate Clare’s calm presence, gentle honesty, and the sense of being genuinely heard, and she is committed to walking alongside people as they make sense of their experiences and find a path forward at their own pace.

Integrative and trauma-informed approaches for online therapy

Clare uses an integrative approach that blends techniques from different evidence-based models to suit each person’s needs. This means interventions are chosen to address the specific issues someone brings, whether that is anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, or the effects of past trauma.

She also works in a trauma-informed way, focusing on safety, pacing, and understanding how past experiences can shape current reactions. This approach is helpful for people who have experienced abuse, dissociation, attachment difficulties, or prolonged stress, and it aims to support regulation and gradual processing.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Clare treats it as a collaborative decision. She will work with the client to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, adjusting techniques as therapy progresses.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and access for people with different schedules and needs. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and allow registered professionals to deliver consistent, focused support across a range of concerns.