Zoe Cliffe, BACP

Zoe Cliffe is a person-centred therapist who draws on humanistic principles to create a warm, accepting space for reflection and growth. With six years of experience working in the United Kingdom, she focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, life changes, ADHD, grief, parenting, career concerns, compassion fatigue and other challenges that affect everyday functioning.

Zoe believes that people are the experts on their own lives and that therapy works best when it moves at the client’s pace. Inspired by the work of Carl Rogers, she listens without judgment and supports clients to explore their thoughts and feelings so they can develop clearer understanding and greater self-acceptance. She also uses simple, practical tools when helpful - for example grounding exercises, breathwork, thought defusion and visualisation techniques - to provide relief between sessions and build coping skills.

Clients often tell her they experience an immediate sense of ease in sessions, finding it easier to speak openly and be heard. Zoe is registered with BACP, the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK, and she frames therapy as a collaborative, compassionate partnership aimed at increasing resilience, insight and confidence. She offers a supportive environment for people seeking meaningful, sustainable change.

Person-Centred Support and Online Access

Client-Centred Therapy is at the heart of Zoe’s practice. This approach emphasises empathic listening, unconditional acceptance and collaboration - the therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them explore thoughts and feelings at a comfortable pace to build self-understanding and self-acceptance. It is especially helpful for people working through relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, life transitions and emotional overwhelm.

Alongside person-centred work, Zoe offers practical, skills-based support such as grounding exercises, breathwork, thought defusion and visualisation. These techniques are introduced gently and used to help manage immediate distress and strengthen coping between sessions, making therapy both reflective and action-oriented.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process and Zoe works collaboratively with each person to identify what fits best for their needs, goals and preferences. She discusses options openly and adjusts the balance between reflective exploration and practical tools as therapy progresses.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and reach help from different locations within the United Kingdom. These formats offer flexibility in scheduling, allow ongoing contact between sessions when needed, and support a consistent, accessible pathway to the therapeutic work Zoe provides.