About Jess
Dr Jess Clapham offers a warm, person-centred style that aims to help people feel understood and supported. She uses Client-Centred Therapy alongside Existential Therapy to help people facing anxiety, stress and questions about meaning. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, with a focus on practical conversation and finding what works for each person.
She has three years of professional experience and holds BACP registration. That background informs a calm, collaborative way of working.
Background and approach
Sessions often start with simple goals and practical steps people can try between meetings. Jess has helped people with low self-esteem, motivation and career pressures. She also supports those coping with major life changes, grief, trauma, anger and depression.
Phobias are listed among her areas of focus and are addressed through tailored discussion and gradual, manageable steps. Her practice also covers parenting concerns, relationship and family issues as individual struggles, and additional topics such as attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care, and life-purpose questions. She listens for what matters most and adjusts the pace to each person’s needs.
Sessions are offered in English and Welsh and can take place online by video, phone, live chat or messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then arranging sessions that fit their schedule.
How client-centred and existential approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience first and focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions. In online sessions this means the counsellor reflects what the person says, helps them clarify goals and works at the person’s pace to try practical steps between meetings.Existential Therapy looks at questions of meaning, choice and values. It can help when someone is rethinking life direction, facing big changes, or feeling stuck. Online conversations using this approach often combine open questions about priorities with small, realistic actions to test new ways of living.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through aims, listen to what matters, and suggest which ideas to try first. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs and goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, while phone calls need less bandwidth and suit shorter check-ins. Messaging and live chat allow ongoing reflection between sessions and can fit around busy schedules. These formats make it easier to arrange therapy from different locations and at times that match a person’s life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Welsh
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