Welcome

Life can sometimes feel exhausting.

Perhaps you're struggling with anxiety, low mood or stress. Maybe you've lost confidence in yourself, feel trapped in painful relationship patterns, or carry a quiet sense that you're somehow not good enough. You might spend your time looking after everyone else while hiding how difficult life feels on the inside. You may not even know exactly what's wrong. You simply know that life feels harder than it should.

Whatever has brought you here, you don't have to face it alone.

I offer a warm, confidential and non-judgemental space where you can talk openly, feel genuinely heard, and explore whatever matters most to you. Therapy isn't about fixing you—because I don't believe you're broken. It's about creating the safety to understand yourself more deeply and discover new ways of relating to yourself and to others.

About Me

I am a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist with over 30 years of clinical experience across healthcare, nursing and psychotherapy. Before becoming a psychotherapist, I worked in general nursing, midwifery, paediatrics and community health, giving me a broad understanding of the relationship between emotional and physical wellbeing.

Alongside my private practice, I provide clinical supervision for trainee and qualified counsellors and contribute to counsellor education as a Visiting Lecturer at the Cornwall Counselling Institute.

My Approach

My work is rooted in the Person-Centred Approach to psychotherapy and informed by relational and psychodynamic thinking.

Rather than giving advice or telling you what to do, I work alongside you with empathy, honesty and curiosity. I believe that lasting change happens when we feel deeply understood and accepted, rather than judged.

Together we may gently explore how your past experiences, important relationships and long-established patterns continue to influence your life today. Sometimes difficulties that seem confusing or overwhelming begin to make sense when viewed in the context of your own story.

Many people come to therapy believing there is something wrong with them. Over time, they often discover that what they have been carrying is not a personal failing, but the understandable impact of painful experiences, losses, relationships or circumstances.

As understanding grows, so too can self-compassion, resilience and the confidence to live more authentically.

When Shame Shapes Our Lives

Many of the people I work with arrive because of anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties or low self-esteem. As therapy unfolds, they sometimes discover that beneath these struggles lies a deeper feeling of shame—a painful belief that they are somehow not good enough, unworthy, or fundamentally flawed.

Shame often develops through difficult life experiences rather than personal weakness. It can leave us constantly questioning ourselves, fearing rejection, hiding our true feelings, or believing we have to earn acceptance by pleasing others or striving to be perfect.

Therapy cannot erase the past, but it can help loosen shame's grip. Within a safe and accepting relationship, many people begin to relate to themselves with greater kindness, understanding and freedom.

What I Can Help With

I work with adults experiencing a wide range of difficulties, including:

• Anxiety and excessive worry
• Depression and low mood
• Low self-esteem and self-criticism
• Shame and feelings of not being good enough
• Childhood trauma, neglect and abuse
• Relationship difficulties
• Bereavement and loss including bereavement by suicide
• Stress and burnout
• Health-related concerns
• Life transitions
• Personal growth and self-understanding

If your particular difficulty isn't listed, you're still very welcome to get in touch. We can discuss what you're experiencing and whether I may be the right therapist for you.

Fees

• Free initial online consultation
• Therapy sessions: £50 per 60-minute session
• Reduced fee for trainee counsellors

Get in Touch

Choosing a therapist is an important decision. If you think I may be the right person to support you, please get in touch to arrange your free initial online consultation.

info@mikeclementcounselling.co.uk

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being." Albert Schweitzer

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