Tracey Clare
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr Tracey Clare is a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and currently teaches on the Counselling Programmes and on the Postgraduate Certificate in Psychological Trauma at the University of Chester. Tracey is an Accredited Member of the BACP and a Fellow of the HEA. Tracey leads a Counselling Service in another HE institution.
Teaching and Supervision
Tracey supervises and examines a range of postgraduate research and taught degrees. Tracey is an external examiner for counselling & psychotherapy programmes at the University of Warwick and the L-Universita ta’ Malta.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Tracey's research interests span interpersonal trauma and psychological growth. Published Work Clare, T. (2023). Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: its practice and its place in social work. In J. Lishman, J. Bolger, N. Gibson, G. Spolander & C. Yuill (Eds.). Social Work: An Introduction (3rd ed). Sage. Clare, T. (2022). Exploring psychological growth in adult offspring following perceived parental rejection in childhood. University of Chester Open Repository. Clare, T. (2018). The symbiotic relationship between mindfulness and person-centred therapy. Thresholds, April, 10-14. Clare, T. (2018). A person-centred approach to breaking the cycle of trans-generational parental rejection. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 18(1), 13-18. Clare, T. (2016). Processing Perceived Parental Rejection. In: P. Gubi & V. Swinton (Eds.), Researching lesser-explored issues in counselling and psychotherapy (pp. 93-127). London: Karnac. Conference Presentations PGR Conference, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2024: Paper 'Building resilience and grit'. International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2024: Paper 'What's grit got to do with it? A qualitative analysis of instrumental copers and pscyhological growth'. European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), Belfast, 2023: Paper ‘Exploring psychological growth in adult offspring following perceived parental rejection in childhood’. What’s love got to do with it? 13th Keele Counselling (Research and Practice) Conference, 2019: Paper ‘Exploring psychological growth in adult offspring following perceived parental rejection in childhood’. International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection, Athens, Greece, 2018: Paper ‘Exploring psychological growth in adult offspring following perceived parental rejection in childhood’. PGR Conference, University of Chester, 2018: Paper ‘Adult perspectives on psychological growth following perceived parental rejection in childhood’. International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection, Madrid, Spain, 2016: Paper ‘Processing perceived parental rejection through personal development on a counsellor training course’. International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection, Madrid, Spain, 2016: Poster ‘The relationship between perceived parental acceptance, self-compassion, positive self-regard and self-acceptance’. British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists Brighton, 2016: Poster ‘Processing perceived parental rejection through personal development on a counsellor training course’.