Claire Ratcliffe: Psychotherapist, Supervisor & Couples Therapist

Claire Ratcliffe: Psychotherapist, Supervisor & Couples Therapist Psychotherapist, Supervisor & Couples Therapist. There are many reasons why people choose to come to therapy.

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For more information please click on the link belo For some, it can be a sense of discomfort, an internal struggle, or perhaps an external trigger has pushed you towards seeking support. Therapy can be an empowering process, supporting you to reconnect with yourself, to notice and take care of your needs, bringing you self awareness, healing, and a deeper sense of security. I work to provide clients with a safe and attuned therapeutic experience. This gives you the space to look at old patterns of behaviour that are no longer serving you, supporting you to make healthier changes, moving you forward into a place of authenticity. My main training and theoretical background is Transactional Analysis & Relational Integrative Psychotherapy. I offer both short-term and long-term therapy for individuals, couples, and groups. Supervision

I completed my Supervision training at The Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy in January 2015. My work as a Supervisor is very much informed by Transactional Analysis & Relational Integrative theory. I supervise Counsellors & Psychotherapists from a wide range of theoretical approaches. I also provide Clinical & Reflective Supervision (Individual & Group) for various organisations. Relationship & Couples Counselling

I am a qualified relationship therapist, and have been working with couples, polyamorous & other relationship variations since 2013. I work with heterosexual relationships & those who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. Telephone & Online sessions available, both within the UK & Internationally. For further information, you can access this via the following link:

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/claire-ratcliffe


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✨ Three-Hour Couples Therapy Intensives Available ✨I have availability for a three-hour couples therapy intensive on:🗓 M...
22/10/2025

✨ Three-Hour Couples Therapy Intensives Available ✨

I have availability for a three-hour couples therapy intensive on:

🗓 Monday 10th November (afternoon)
🗓 Monday 17th November (afternoon)

This is the shortest intensive I offer .. designed for couples who want to make meaningful progress in a focused block of time.
These sessions don’t come up often, so I’m sharing the dates in advance for anyone who’s been thinking about booking.

💛 How a three-hour intensive can help:

• Provides the space to explore recurring patterns and communication challenges in more depth

• Allows time to get to the heart of issues that feel “stuck” or keep resurfacing

• Offers a supportive structure for rebuilding trust and emotional connection

• Helps you develop practical tools you can start using straight away

• Creates momentum and clarity to support ongoing change after the session

For some couples, a three-hour intensive is enough to work through a specific issue, whether that’s answering an important question about their relationship, reaching a decision together, or finding new ways to reconnect.

For others, especially if there’s a lot of resentment or emotional dysregulation, the intensive can be a powerful starting point… the beginning of a deeper process that may continue with further sessions.

If you’d like to book or find out more, you can follow the link in my bio… it’ll take you to my website contact form.
You can also find more information about the couples therapy intensives there.

✨ New Podcast Episode ✨Beyond Exhaustion: Finding Your Way Out of BurnoutBurnout can creep in quietly … until one day, y...
21/10/2025

✨ New Podcast Episode ✨

Beyond Exhaustion: Finding Your Way Out of Burnout

Burnout can creep in quietly … until one day, you realise you’re running on empty.

In this episode of Healing Relationships: With Ourselves, Others & The World, I explore what burnout can feel like, why it happens, and how we can begin to find our way out of it.

We’ll talk about:

🌿 The signs and symptoms of burnout

💭 The deeper reasons we reach this point

🕊️ What recovery can look like … slowly and gently

💡 How to spot the early signs next time

If you’ve been feeling exhausted, disconnected, or overwhelmed, this episode might help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and how to begin healing.

🎧 Listen now on your favourite podcast platform.

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Learning to Let Love In: The Art of Receiving Love 💛In this episode, I explore:✨ How we experience love .. and why it ca...
14/10/2025

Learning to Let Love In: The Art of Receiving Love 💛

In this episode, I explore:

✨ How we experience love .. and why it can sometimes feel unfamiliar or even uncomfortable.

✨ The protective parts of us that rise up to keep us safe, but also keep love at a distance.

✨ The subtle ways others might be trying to show us love (and why it doesn’t always land).

✨ How we can begin to soften, to notice, and to let love in … slowly, gently, in small, titrated steps.

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why it’s so hard to truly feel loved, this episode is for you.

🎧 Listen to Learning to let love in: the art of receiving love — available now wherever you listen to podcasts.

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New Podcast Episode Out Today!How Healing Changes Who We Fall For: Changing Who We’re Attracted To.. Are you tired of re...
07/10/2025

New Podcast Episode Out Today!

How Healing Changes Who We Fall For: Changing Who We’re Attracted To..

Are you tired of repeating the same relationship patterns?
Falling for the same kind of person and ending up feeling alone, isolated, or unsatisfied?

In this episode, I explore:

💫 Why we’re drawn to familiar (and often unhealthy) dynamics

💫 How our younger parts or inner child may be choosing our partners for us

💫 How to recognise this pattern consciously

💫 And how healing allows us to start choosing people who are truly good for us

Listen to How Healing Changes Who We Fall For: Changing Who We’re Attracted To available now on your podcast platform. 🎧

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New Podcast Episode Out Today…Finding Peace in Solitude: Learning To Be Comfortable AloneDo you find it difficult to spe...
30/09/2025

New Podcast Episode Out Today…

Finding Peace in Solitude: Learning To Be Comfortable Alone

Do you find it difficult to spend time alone?

In this episode, I talk about what we do when we find it hard to be by ourselves, and how we ‘fill the space’.

I also cover:

- How we can feel activated by having time alone

- How to show our nervous system it is safe to be by ourselves.

- How our attachment style contributes to the feeling of being ‘unsafe’ alone.

- Tips and tools on how to slowly introduce small amount of time alone to show our nervous system it is safe.

- Resources that are regulating for our nervous system, and help build security and safety within ourselves.

I hope you find this episode helpful and supportive.

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Healing Relationships 💛

More and more couples are booking my Couples Therapy Intensives lately and I love seeing the transformation that can hap...
27/09/2025

More and more couples are booking my Couples Therapy Intensives lately and I love seeing the transformation that can happen in just a few focused hours together.

Couples Therapy Intensives are perfect if you want to go deeper, faster, and make meaningful progress without waiting weeks between sessions.

✨ Here are 6 benefits of booking a Couples Therapy Intensive:

1. Dedicated time .. Spend several hours focusing solely on your relationship.

2. Faster progress … Work through challenges that might take months in weekly therapy.

3. Deeper connection … Reconnect and rebuild intimacy in a safe, guided space.

4. Clarity and insight … Understand patterns in your relationship and what’s driving them.

5. Practical tools … Leave with strategies you can start using right away.

6. Tailored approach .. The session is fully customised to your needs as a couple.

💌 If you and your partner are ready to reconnect or resolve long standing issues, an Intensive might be exactly what you need.

I offer several intensive which are listed on my website: www.claireratcliffepsychotherapy.co.uk

🍂 Nostalgia, Memory & the Changing Seasons 🍂Autumn can feel like more than just a season.The crisp air, falling leaves, ...
23/09/2025

🍂 Nostalgia, Memory & the Changing Seasons 🍂

Autumn can feel like more than just a season.
The crisp air, falling leaves, and early sunsets often bring back memories… sometimes comforting, sometimes painful.

This time last year might have been joyful, or it might have been one of the hardest seasons of your life. If you’re finding yourself feeling sad, tearful, or reflective right now, you’re not alone. So many of us can feel like this at this time of year.

🧡 Autumn has a way of inviting us to slow down, look back, and process what we’ve been through. That can be beautiful and also bittersweet.

Maybe this autumn is reminding you of a loss, a breakup, a move, grief or a big life change.

Maybe you’re noticing how far you’ve come since last year … or how much still hurts.

Wherever you find yourself today, try to offer yourself compassion. Light a candle. Journal. Talk to someone you trust. Take time for you to process. It’s okay to feel tender this season.
It isn’t all pumpkin spiced lattes .. although those do make me feel better to be honest 🎃

🍁You are allowed to grieve, remember, and process all at once. Honour your whole experience.

New Podcast Episode Out Today! Emotional Infidelity: Are You Being Emotionally Unfaithful? Here I’m exploring what start...
23/09/2025

New Podcast Episode Out Today!

Emotional Infidelity: Are You Being Emotionally Unfaithful?

Here I’m exploring what starts to happen when we enter into infidelity territory and the blurring of boundaries.

I also cover:

✨How Emotional Infidelity can make us feel.

✨How our ‘younger parts’ or ‘inner child’ can be active during this process

✨Signs to look out for that we are entering into Emotional Infidelity ground.

✨Ways to prevent this from happening.

✨The grief that comes with moving away from the relationship with the emotional affair person.

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New Podcast Episode: Self-Trust: Building Trust Within Yourself 🎙️Do you find it hard to trust your own decisions?Do you...
18/09/2025

New Podcast Episode: Self-Trust: Building Trust Within Yourself 🎙️

Do you find it hard to trust your own decisions?

Do you second-guess yourself or feel disconnected from your intuition?

Do you often look outside of yourself for the answer?

In this episode, I explore what self-trust really means, why it can feel so difficult to develop, and practical ways to start building a deeper, kinder relationship with yourself.

The episode looks at:

✨ How childhood experiences impact self-trust

✨ How it shows up in our relationships

✨ Small steps to start rebuilding trust within yourself

🎧 Tune in now wherever you listen to podcasts

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Today .. I did something I have wanted to do for a very long time… But only just got round to it! Each year I write a li...
15/09/2025

Today .. I did something I have wanted to do for a very long time… But only just got round to it!

Each year I write a list of personal and professional goals… and there have been many that I have achieved so far, especially when it comes to my therapy practice.

Some of these have felt very daunting, such as recording myself and uploading videos of me talking about therapy stuff for starters…!

On my list from January 2023 was to… launch a podcast.
…Another very daunting ‘out of my comfort zone’ experience.
But today, I did just that..!

The podcast is called
Healing Relationships: With Ourselves, Others & The World.

My hope is for this podcast to be a guide to understanding and healing your relationships - starting with the one you have with yourself, so you can feel a deeper sense of peace, trust and security in yourself and your life.

Each week, I’ll share insights, tools and conversations about how to break and heal from old patterns, improve communication, and create connection that feels good, whether that’s with a partner, friends, family, or within yourself.

I really hope that you find it somewhat helpful and that you can take something from each episode.

Right now I have only released a one minute trailer! But from tomorrow, and every Tuesday morning, a new episode will be released.. tomorrow’s episode which is the first is:

Self Trust: Building Trust Within Yourself.

Please follow or subscribe if you think this podcast could be for you! 💛

“Why is therapy so expensive?”It’s a question many people wonder about… As therapists, the fee we charge isn’t just for ...
09/09/2025

“Why is therapy so expensive?”

It’s a question many people wonder about… As therapists, the fee we charge isn’t just for the hour you spend with us .. it also covers the many professional costs needed to run a safe, ethical, and supportive practice.

When you pay for therapy, you’re not just paying for the 50 minutes (or more) you spend in the room (or online). You’re also helping your therapist cover the many costs that go into running a safe, ethical, and professional practice.

Here are just some of the overheads therapists need to pay for:

1️⃣ Therapy room rental / online platforms
2️⃣ Clinical supervision (mandatory for ethical practice)
3️⃣ Additional supervision (if we specialise in particular areas)
4️⃣ Professional training & CPD (continuing professional development)
5️⃣ The time out of client work to attend CPD training
6️⃣ Insurance (professional indemnity + public liability)
7️⃣ Professional memberships & registrations
8️⃣ Marketing & website costs
9️⃣ Technology (secure video platforms, email, software)
🔟 Office supplies & resources (books, worksheets, materials)
1️⃣1️⃣ Accountancy & business admin costs
1️⃣2️⃣ Sick pay & annual leave (as self-employed practitioners, this comes out of our own earnings)
1️⃣3️⃣ Personal therapy (often required for training & ongoing practice)

✨ Therapy is not just an hour … it’s supported by years of training, ongoing learning, and the unseen work that ensures the space is safe, ethical, and effective for you.

💬 Does seeing this breakdown help shift your perspective on therapy fees?

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