Cloudette Hancel

Professional Profile

Welcome to my brief biography. My name is Cloudette, and I am a BABCP fully accredited High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, having significant clinical experience with adults and young people, treating and improving their mental health.

My weekly clinics are held online via video link.

I have a special interest in anxiety as the main factor bringing you to therapy or anxiety in relation to other conditions such as autism (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) for example.

I  offer both  brief and long-term therapy.

I can help with:

• Social Anxiety, General Anxiety Disorder and Health Anxiety
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Historical Racial Trauma
• Depression
• Adjustment to major life events
• Issues of identity
• Loss and bereavement
• Work related Stress (Coaching offered if more appropriate)
• Low mood
• Emotional Dysregulation (ED)
• Misophonia
• Phobias
• Hearing voices

It has been a long time ambition of mine to become a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, so I feel privileged to be in this position. You will find a warm and non-judgemental atmosphere in the clinic; you will also find that your recovery is the focus of all of the sessions.

What I have noticed throughout my career is that anxiety can be crippling and exhausting; people alter their lives in dramatic ways to avoid experiencing that feeling. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety, General Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder can all be expressions of the way that we try to avoid anxiety because of the worry about the potential consequences of feeling anxious.

For example, if you are feeling stressed at work, you experience shortness of breath, body aches or even dissociation, you may work late or avoid work completely, having a significant impact on all areas of your life. Even if being at work appears to be the only trigger. Staying later at work and/or avoiding work can bring temporary relief to the anxiety and and sense of calm until the next time.

Using CBT can be a useful way of enabling you to manage this situation and help you recover the resilience you have. CBT is designed to break cycles, recreate them or build new ones.

CBT can also help with symptoms of trauma related anxiety states, such as flashbacks and a heightened sense of threat that can appear for no apparent reason at all. Working together, with CBT we can reduce these distressing symptoms and work towards eliminating them so that you can return to living without that intangible sense of pending doom.

You are welcome to reach out to see whether CBT is the best way of healing for you.