Ailis Clarke: Behavioural Psychologist and Psychotherapist, London and Guildford, Surrey

About Ailis

Ailis has over fifteen years’ experience working on wellbeing issues such as anxiety, infidelity, relationship breakdown, work issues and life changes such as retirement.

Her extensive training includes a two-year fellowship at the Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, Harvard, an MSc in Psychology at the University of Surrey, an FdSc in Counselling at the University of Greenwich, psychotherapy training at The Priory Hospital and a Diploma in Mindfulness and CBT from Stonebridge College.  She is trained across a number of modalities such as CBT, Transactional Analysis, Humanistic Counselling, Gestalt and Psychodynamic Therapy, providing her with a wide-ranging therapeutic toolbox.

Ailis is a member of The British Psychological Society, the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, the Civil Mediation Council and the Association for Coaching. She is Deputy Chair of The Funding Network (UK).

Ailis also has a law degree from Trinity College Dublin and Katholieke Universeteit Leuven. Prior to working in well-being, she worked in the corporate world for 15 years.

Services

Ailis’s main areas of interest are:

• Anxiety
• Stress
• Executive stress
• Relationship mediation
• Work mediation
• Retirement transition
• Life changes
• Infidelity
• Anger management
• Executive coaching

Anxiety

Anxiety can manifest itself in a variety of ways, including sleeplessness, panic attacks, work performance stress and imposter syndrome. Ailis uses a combination of occupational psychology, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and coaching to help reframe such anxieties into manageable challenges.

Infidelity

Ailis offers individual sessions to help people who have experienced infidelity explore their situation in depth, understand their reaction to it and make clearer decisions about it. Several approaches to roadmap a new life together or apart may be used: cognitive and behavioural psychology, intergenerational work (which looks at patterns of behaviour learned as a child), integrative counselling and practical action plans for new behaviours.

Mediation

Ailis offers mediation with the aim of creating an amicable solution for both relationship and workplace disagreements. The process involves respecting and focusing on what worked in the relationship and then investigating what brought about the breakdown. Transactional Analysis and Integrative Counselling are used to help deal with the issues and bring union on the shared interests they reveal. The aim is to leave mediation with a peaceful agreement on how the shared life ahead is lived. One joint session is followed by seven individual ones, where the person’s concerns and interests are worked through. The agreement is concluded in a final joint session.

Life transitions

Ailis helps people who are undergoing or about to undergo a life transition, such as retirement or redundancy, develop a roadmap to a fulfilling and happy future. The process involves looking together at how the person lived in the past and why, and what they need to thrive now and in their life going forward.  Tools used include MBTI (psychological preferences), FiroB (emotional needs) and humanistic counselling.

Fees

Treatments and hourly rates at £180 per hour are:

• Anxiety
• Limiting beliefs
• Depression
• Relationship issues
• Infidelity
• Stress
• Retirement issues
• Cultural differences and anxiety

Executive Management Coaching: £300

Couples Mediation: £300

Ailis is registered for private insurance work with WPA Health Insurance, Healix, Cigna and General and medical healthcare.

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