Claire Hanley-Stakes

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday  4pm - 8pm. 

Wednesday 9am - 5pm

Saturday 9am -3pm. 

Hi, my name is Claire.

Are you feeling overwhelmed and unable to cope. Maybe your feeling stuck and would like help in finding a way forward.

I offer therapy to individuals, couples and groups of people from a lovely peaceful counselling and therapy practice in the centre of Wakefield which has a pay and display car park just outside. I offer counselling face to face, via video link and telephone. I work on both a long and short-term basis using predominantly a person-centred approach, although I do integrate other ways of working to best suit you and your needs, as we as individuals are all unique.

I do appreciate that therapy may be an emotionally challenging experience. So therefore, I will work with you, at your pace, to help you, find your answers. I provide a safe place and time to talk to you, in a confidential environment where you will be accepted for who you are, without any judgement, with the aim to building a genuine therapeutic relationship of respect, empathy and trust.

Therapy can help you resolve complicated thoughts and feelings or find ways to help you live with them. It can help you recognise unhelpful patterns in the way that you think or act and find ways to change, if this is what you want. It can also help you explore and find the root causes of long-standing problems.

People often look to access therapy when they have experienced difficult life events such as bereavement. This may be the loss of a loved one, a job, a relationship, a home or a pet. Relationship problems such as Infidelity and communication difficulties. Upsetting or Traumatic experiences, whether this is something recent or something that happened a long time ago. It may be that you are experiencing difficult emotions, such as grief, guilt, sadness, confusion, anger, shame. Lacking confidence and low self-esteem. Or you may be struggling with depression, anxiety, other mental health conditions, stress or long-term physical health problems.

Initially you can request a free 30 minutes free consultation via telephone or video link (Zoom) to meet to see if you feel you can work with me and for you to share with me your reasons for accessing therapy and what you would like to gain from the sessions. 

If you decide you would like to continue working together we would then look to book your first counselling session. 

Session fees can be paid in cash in session or via bank transfer. 

When you arrive in person for a session at The Therapy Rooms in Wakefield. You would arrive at your appointment time at the external blue front door and I would come and collect you from there at your appointment time. 

If you chose to have therapy via telephone I would call you at your appointment time. If you require therapy via video link (Zoom) I would send you a zoom link before the session which you would connect to. I would then enter and then let you into the session at your appointment time.