Josephine Cleverly , BACP

Josephine Cleverly is a BACP counsellor with six years of professional experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, self-esteem problems, grief, and life changes. Josephine also helps with parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, and work or career concerns. She works with people dealing with addiction, compassion fatigue, ADHD and a wide range of family-related stresses.

Her background includes a BA in Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling from Lancashire and a Masters in Integrative Counselling completed in Melbourne, Australia. She spent several years as a school counsellor at a large international school in Singapore, where she worked with a varied client range and many presenting issues. That experience included supporting adults and young people affected by domestic violence and trauma.

Josephine uses an integrative approach, drawing on attachment ideas, play therapy, person-centred principles, cognitive behavioural techniques and solution-focused work. She adapts methods to what each person needs and prefers rather than following a single recipe. Sessions can include creative exercises as well as direct conversation.

She aims to make sessions respectful, sensitive and compassionate. Josephine explains things plainly and works at the client’s pace. Together she and the client shape a plan that fits the person’s goals and everyday life.

Josephine works from the United Kingdom and offers services in English. She welcomes international clients and incorporates practical strategies to help people manage tough moments and build clearer next steps.

Integrative approaches and online support

Josephine often uses person-centred work, which focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk things through and build confidence at their own pace.

She also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and test simpler, practical ways of coping. CBT-style techniques suit people wanting concrete steps for anxiety, low mood or stress. In addition she uses attachment-informed ideas to look at relationship patterns and how early bonds influence current difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Josephine works collaboratively to decide what methods fit a person’s goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan if something is not helping. Clients are involved in shaping each stage of work so it feels relevant and doable.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video suits conversations that benefit from visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life or travel and allow people to choose what feels most practical for them.