About Mandy
Mandy Clarkson is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and depression. She supports parents, people facing relationship and family difficulties, and those coping with trauma, grief or big life changes. Mandy also works with concerns such as self-esteem, anger, sleep and eating problems, and explores issues related to identity including LGBT matters and intimacy-related worries.
She uses a warm, calm approach and aims to make talking about hard things easier.
Background and approach
Mandy trained in Person-Centred therapy, which puts the person’s experience at the centre of sessions. She now practises in an integrative way, blending approaches to match what each person needs, including somatic and cognitive techniques where helpful. Mandy brings six years of professional experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
She draws on a mix of practical strategies and reflective work, so people can learn skills for day-to-day coping as well as understand patterns from the past. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and how to get there in small, manageable steps.
Mandy encourages pacing the work to the person’s comfort and uses mindfulness and body-aware practices when tension or overwhelm is present. Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to create a space where people feel heard and can try out new ways of responding to life. Mandy can work by phone, video, live chat or messaging to suit different needs and routines.
How Mandy’s approaches work online
Somatic Therapy looks at how the body holds stress and emotion and uses gentle awareness of bodily sensations to help release tension. This can be useful for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or disconnected from their bodily signals. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and priorities, giving space for honest, paced conversation and helping people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical skills to manage mood, worry and behaviour in day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Mandy will talk with the person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. She mixes approaches as needed so the sessions remain practical, personalised and collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These formats give flexibility for busy schedules, allow work from home, and make it easier to continue therapy during life changes. Many people find being able to switch between live talks and messaging helps keep progress steady while fitting therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English