About Alan
Alan Clucas is a counsellor who blends somatic methods with client-centred listening and motivational interviewing. He draws on 12 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation. Alan aims to help people find steady ground when life feels overwhelming or out of balance.
He works with a wide range of concerns, including addiction, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression. He also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, career uncertainty, grief and midlife questions.
Background and approach
His practice attends to both emotional patterns and the body’s responses to stress. In sessions Alan asks simple, direct questions and listens closely. He helps people notice how their body reacts to difficult memories or decisions and uses that awareness to guide change.
He encourages small, workable steps and practical strategies that fit everyday life. Motivational interviewing is used to clarify what matters most to each person and to build momentum for change. Client-centred work provides space for people to tell their story without judgement.
Somatic ideas bring attention to breath, posture and physical sensations as part of healing. Alan describes therapy as a collaborative effort. He supports people as they set goals and try new ways of coping.
To begin, a short matching process is used so people can arrange sessions that suit their schedule.
How somatic and client-centred work translates online
Alan blends somatic ideas, client-centred listening and motivational interviewing into remote sessions. Somatic therapy brings attention to bodily sensations, breath and posture to help people notice how stress shows up in the body; it can be useful for trauma, anxiety and chronic tension. Client-centred work focuses on being heard and understood, giving people space to tell their story at their own pace. Motivational interviewing helps clarify what someone wants to change and builds practical steps towards those goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist and client look at the person’s needs, goals and preferences, then try methods that fit. If something does not suit, they adapt the work so it feels manageable and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats allow people to join from home, fit sessions around work or family life and follow up between sessions with messaging when that is helpful. Many find the range of options makes it easier to maintain continuity and try different ways of working.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English