Natalie Clarke

Specialisms

Practitioner Statement

I am an Integrative psychotherapist. Some key ways that I work include psychodynamic, person-centred and relational approaches. I am also influenced by body psychotherapy, IFS, polyvagal theory and attachment theory.

I work with a wide variety of people, but people who have seen me include queer people, trans and non-binary people, neurodivergent people (especially ADHD, and autistic women and afab people), people who are non-monogamous and/or polyamorous or in open relationships, people from a working class background, people of colour, sex workers, and people who practise kink/BDSM. I also frequently work with neurodivergent people, people who have auto-immune or chronic illness, and those with Long Covid.

I am queer and trans friendly, including non-binary identities. I am also kink aware and see sex work as work. I am body positive and practise fat acceptance. As a white person I aim to be as anti-racist as possible and my therapeutic approach is influenced by queer theory and intersectional feminism. I am deeply influenced by disability justice, and aim to create a neurodiversity-affirming practice. I am interested in anti-oppressive and decolonial frameworks and aim to make my counselling practise an inclusive and diverse space.