John W. Clarke MEd, RP, ThM, MBACP

Registered Psychotherapist

Greetings! I am a Registered Psychotherapist and a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy who practices and teaches psychotherapy. Regarding my professional mental health practice, I am a private practitioner (Clarke Counselling) offering psychotherapy services via secure video format (Zoom Pro).

Although in a past professional life I practiced in large group practices that charge a very high hourly rate ($200+), my primary professional practice objective today is to keep my per-session fee reasonably low ($100 inclusive) so that a much wider demographic of individuals and couples can access professional psychotherapy services.

Since 2014, I have accumulated extensive clinical experience using Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy and relational, person-centred interventions to treat adults presenting with various psychological and emotional challenges.

Life is often complex and messy. The short- and long-term challenges you have been wrestling with have become overwhelming and burdensome, and how you respond to these stressors may be manifesting as anxiety, depression, and general negative feelings about yourself, others, and the wider world. It may also be your experience that your low mood is negatively impacting various interpersonal relationships, including family, romantic partnerships, and professional colleagues. You may feel like you have reached an emotional impasse, that these chronic negative patterns are making you feel stuck. You have arrived at a point in your life where you no longer wish to feel this way. You are to be commended for having decided to reclaim agency over these negative feelings and move forward. Your decision to seek therapy has not been made lightly. 

     When we meet for our initial intake session, my priority will be to create an empathic space for you to feel comfortable enough to share your story. I will invite you to inform me about your current challenges and how they are negatively affecting your life. I then will invite you to collaborate with me on identifying potential primary and tertiary treatment goals. Through our continued discussions and collaborating over the next two sessions, we will explore further your presenting issues. I will then share with you my treatment plan for your specific condition. I have always been an integrative psychotherapist, and depending on the presenting issue, I may recommend that we first understand its origins from an attachment-based, interpersonal relationships perspective, then employ various cognitive-behavioural tools and exercises to help you develop the necessary skills to achieve your short- and long-term goals. Throughout our therapeutic journey together, I will continuously reassess how you are feeling, and I always leave space to change course if you and I decide that your initial presenting challenges and/or therapeutic goals have changed.   

“I place the highest priority on creating a warm and empathic, safe, non-judgmental space where my clients and I can collaborate to come up with workable short- and long-term solutions. These will address the various negative thought patterns and schemas that often cause or contribute to feelings of low self-worth, hopelessness, and anxiousness about the future.”