Award-winning Psychotherapist & Counsellor

Reg M BACP, Adl Dip, CBT, Group Analysis Camb

​NCPS Accredited Professional Registrant

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ruth@clevedon-counselling.co.uk

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Ruth Chaloner is a highly respected Psychotherapist and founder of several mental health and wellbeing initiatives across the UK, including The Help Hub, Chaloner Wellbeing, Clevedon Counselling, and Woodstock Counselling. With a career rooted in compassion and professionalism

 

​When life feels difficult, you don't have to work it out alone.

You may be feeling anxious, overwhelmed or low. Perhaps a relationship is causing you pain, work has become difficult, or something in your life has changed, and you no longer feel quite like yourself. Sometimes there isn't an obvious reason. You may simply know that something isn't right, or find yourself repeating patterns you understand intellectually but still can't seem to change. Therapy offers a confidential space where you can talk openly, make sense of what is happening and begin to find a way forward. I'm Ruth Chaloner, an award-winning psychotherapist and counsellor with over 20 years' experience of helping people through difficult periods in their lives. I offer face-to-face counselling and psychotherapy from my private practice in Clevedon, North Somerset, as well as online sessions.

 

How I can help

People come to therapy for many different reasons. You don't need to have a diagnosis or even know exactly what the problem is before getting in touch.

I regularly work with people experiencing:

• Anxiety, worry and feeling overwhelmed

• Depression and low mood

• Relationship and family difficulties

• Loss, grief and bereavement

• Low self-esteem and lack of confidence

• Stress, burnout and workplace difficulties

• Major life changes and transitions

• Difficult childhood experiences

• Repeating patterns in relationships

• Feeling stuck, lost or unsure about the future

Sometimes people come because life looks perfectly successful from the outside, but internally they feel exhausted, unhappy or disconnected from themselves.

Therapy can give you the time and space to understand why you feel as you do and what might need to change.

 

An experienced approach to therapy

I have worked as a psychotherapist and counsellor for more than 20 years, including experience within NHS primary care as well as private practice. I am an integrative psychotherapist, which means I don't believe one therapeutic approach suits everybody. I draw on different ways of working depending upon you, what you are experiencing and what you hope to achieve. Our work might involve understanding how earlier experiences have shaped you, looking at patterns in your relationships, exploring what is happening in your life now, or developing practical ways of managing anxiety and difficult emotions. Most importantly, therapy is a relationship. I aim to provide a space that feels warm, thoughtful and accepting, but also one in which we can gently challenge patterns that may no longer be helping you.

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You don't have to be in crisis to come to therapy

Some people come at a particularly difficult point in their lives. Others come because they have realised they want something to change. You may want to understand yourself better, improve your relationships, feel less anxious or simply have somewhere you don't need to look after everybody else. Whatever brings you to therapy, we can begin by talking about what is happening and what you would like to be different.

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Taking the first step

Finding the right therapist matters. You are very welcome to contact me to tell me a little about what has brought you here and to ask any questions before deciding whether you would like to arrange a first session.