Chloe McCormack

I offer an initial first twenty-minute meeting free of charge, with no obligations. After that, I charge £60 per session (50 mins) or I offer a concessionary fee for low-waged and student clients at £50 per session. 

For couples, I offer an hour-long session for £80

Currently I have a fortnightly space at 7pm on a Monday 

I can offer a fortnightly space at 12.30 on a Tuesday

I have fortnightly space on a Friday- 11am and 1pm, 

As a therapist, I profoundly believe that change is possible and that every individual has the potential for growth. My hope is for us to develop a therapeutic relationship that will be healing for you.

As a gender, sexuality and relationship therapist, I offer a warm, empathetic approach, and together I hope we can create a space for you to be vulnerable and explore whatever you wish to bring. Counselling is an opportunity to work through pain, hurt, resentment and anger, or it can be a place to explore a new way of being.

Since graduating from University of Brighton in 2019 with a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, I have completed further training in various modalities. I am a qualified relationship counsellor, having completed a post graduate Certificate in Couples Counselling with Relationship Scotland that included 100 hours of couples work. I incorporate psychodynamic, systemic, and emotion-focused theories to work with individuals, couples and other relationship configurations.

In 2023, I completed a certificate in Psychosexual Therapy with the Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology, which has enabled me to work with psychosexual issues such as loss of desire, sexual dysfunction, compulsive sexual behaviour, serodiscordance, and mismatching libidos. I consider myself a kink positive and BDSM aware therapist.

Then in 2024, I undertook a certificate in trauma therapy with the Link Centre, where I learnt to work with trauma in a triphasic model. As a result, I am trained in trauma processing methods such as Narrative Exposure Therapy and Imaginal Exposure, which can help reduce common symptoms of PTSD such as intrusive memories. Initially, in trauma therapy, we would work on developing stabilisation and self regulation, a process that can be lengthy, and when we have created an internal safe space, we would use various techniques to process your trauma.

For the past five years I have worked as a counsellor at the Terrence Higgins Trust, working with individuals living with HIV. As an LGBTQIA affirmative counsellor with an arts background, I have lots of experience working with trans, non-binary and gender diverse clients and alternative relationship models. As a member of the LGBT+ community, I appreciate the political and societal stresses LGBTQIA individuals can experience living in a heteronormative society.

Previously, I have worked with clients in recovery from substance misuse and alcoholism and have a contemporary understanding of the concepts around drug and alcohol misuse. I have experience working with chemsex, and we can examine what you think the source of your substance or alcohol misuse is in a completely confidential and non-judgmental space.

My mental health experience includes working with clients with a clinical diagnosis, and I endeavour to work in a non-pathologising way; I work with the individual and not the diagnosis. 

We can work at a pace you feel comfortable with, and put your wellbeing at the centre of our sessions. Within the space of a therapeutic relationship, I believe there is the opportunity to reflect and bring awareness to our thoughts, feelings and actions, hopefully providing a deeper understanding of ourselves and creating change as a response.