We don't do home visits like the TV programmes and other 'experts' for 4 main reasons:

1. Blitzes don't work or last because Clare, the founder of Clutter Clearing was a former clutterholic and borderline hoarder herself. Over the last 20 years, Clare has worked with many people who have had home visits or been on the TV Programmes and found themselves back where they started (or worse) within a year.
2. Because of overwhelm your brain is not able to make decisions for more than 2 hours a day, so having a home visit for more than 2 hours a day is never going to work.
3. If your brain can only make decisions for 2 hours a day and you have 3 or more rooms that need clearing, it will take longer than a day, a week or even a month to clear which would cost you a fortune.
4. It will be an extremely stressful and overwhelming experience for you to have a stranger in your cluttered home, and the harder it will be to make decisions.

We know that you’re intelligent and that you CAN clear your clutter and take back control of your home yourself without the need for an expensive home visit.

We provide:

• Information and exercises to help you get started with overcoming some of the most common challenges with our Introductory Workshops
• the 'How-to' knowledge and road map of how to get from where you are now to completely clutter free FOREVER with our unique 7 Step Journey programme

as much or as little support as you want or need as you start to deal with your clutter challenge, starting with our online Social Gatherings

That’s depends on 5 factors:

• How much clutter you have that needs clearing and in how many rooms or areas of your home.
• How much time you can spend working on your 7 Step Journey without feeling overwhelmed – people on the 7 Step Journey do a minimum of 30 minutes a day, three days a week, up to a maximum of 2 hours a day, five days a week. They NEVER do more than 2 hours a day, 5 days a week because your brain cannot make decisions for more than 2 hours a day. It’s more important to do a little and often, than try to do a lot in one go.
• Which level of support you choose when you start your 7 Step Journey – DIY 7 Step Journey with no support, Group 7 Step Journey with three weekly Group Support Sessions, Private 7 Step Journey with one, two or three private sessions with mee. We all have bad days and tough weeks when we’re clearing our clutter, and you’re going to need support to get through the bad days and tough weeks so that you break your giving up habit.
  • The statistics show that:
    • 60% of those who choose the DIY 7 Step Journey never successfully complete their 7 Step Journey – 40% of those give up after 3 months
    • 40% of those who choose the DIY 7 Step Journey successfully complete their 7 Step Journey within 5 years
    • 87% of those on the Group 7 Step Journey successfully complete their 7 Step Journey within 3 – 4 years
    • 94% of those on the Private 7 Step Journey with one private session a week successfully complete their 7 Step Journey within 2 – 3 years
    • 97% of those on the Private 7 Step Journey with two private sessions a week successfully complete their 7 Step Journey within 2 – 3 years
    • 99% of those on the Private 7 Step Journey with three private sessions a week successfully complete their 7 Step Journey within 18 - 30 months
  • How patient, persistent and determined you are to clear all your clutter Forever. We all have a habit of giving up when we get overwhelmed or we become impatient with our clutter. That’s why we still have it.
  • How willing and open you are to understand why you have your clutter challenge and break the habits of thinking and doing you have that have caused the clutter.

Yes.

Lots of Clutter College members have - or struggle - with the following:

• Anxiety
• Extreme Overwhelm
• Social Anxiety
• Low self-esteem
• Depression – either long term, severe or periodic bouts
• Weight issues / obesity
• Schizophrenia
• Executive Functioning Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• PTSD
• Isolation
• An Eating Disorder
• Recovering
• Parental relationship issues – either past or current - particularly with their relationship with their mother
• Relationship issues – either past or current

There have also been a lot of people who have been recovering from cancer treatment while they’ve been on their 7 Step Journey.

So if you struggle with any of the above, please know you're perfectly normal and it’s still possible for you to Clear your Clutter.

As we help people without travelling to their home, you’re in charge of how much and how often you work on your Clutter Clearing 7 Step Journey, depending on how you’re feeling. Even just watching one video will enable you to make progress with clearing your clutter.

I would recommend you start with an online workshop so you can get comfortable with how we work and then build up slowly from there.

Everyone who is clearing their Clutter the Clutter Clearing way struggles with impatience (!), but it's important we take it slowly precisely because even if you don't suffer from a pre-existing issue, going through your belongings that you may not have seen for years can cause anxiety / depression.

If you decide to take the 7 Step Journey Course which is the most time and energy consuming – although it’s the only option that’s going to enable you to become completely clutter free Forever, I would recommend that you make sure you have appropriate support in place in the form of a therapist / counsellor BEFORE you start your 7 Step Journey, that way you’re more able to manage any symptoms before they become an issue.

You don’t have to do this on your own – in fact those who TRY to do it on their own usually end up giving up.

You can choose how much support you get depending on which type of help you choose.

If you’re a beginner and you want to meet others and get more comfortable with how it works and build up your confidence and belief that you CAN clear your clutter, the Social Gathering Support Group or the Clutter Clearing LITE membership is a great place to start. You don’t have to be doing any other course to join either of those.

As you build your confidence you can then do a Workshop so you can get some practical knowledge and advice.

Then you could commit to just one term – or 5 consecutive weeks – with a Getting Started Course which will combine some practical knowledge, advice and ‘how-to’ with an online course PLUS the support you need to get into a routine of using that course by joining the Social Gathering Support Group and a LIVE Group Clutter Clearing Session each week.

Once you feel supported by others and have started to get into a routine of making a little time regularly to ‘Do the Doing’, you could then start your 7 Step Journey.

If you prefer private 1-2-1 support from me, you can start your Private 7 Step Journey at any time.

So you can have as much – or as little – support as you want or need.

Don't be too hard on them.

If they don’t’ have a clutter challenge themselves it's very hard for people to understand how difficult it is for us to deal with it.

They do care - people only get frustrated with us if they care - and they're probably not supportive because they know you want to clear it and they don't want you to fail again.

I would suggest that you start to meet people who ARE supportive of you starting your 7 Step Journey. People who have been where you are right now so won’t judge you or pressurise you to clear it as quickly as possible.

You can do that either by becoming a Clutter Clearing LITE Member and meeting those people in my Private Facebook Group – my VIP Circle – or by joining the Social Gathering Support Group. Once you realise there are lots of people around the world who are supporting you appropriately, you’ll feel more confident about starting your Clutter Clearing 7 Step Journey. Once you start your 7 Step Journey, there are lots of way friends and family can help and support us without getting involved in the decision making, and even without them even knowing they’re helping us!

Support doesn't always have to be specific to the actual clutter.

Absolutely.

Remember that I’m a former borderline hoarder myself and I was able to clear my clutter by creating and following the 7 Step Journey, and hundreds of hoarders have successfully completed their 7 Step Journey and become completely clutter free Forever too. The only difference is that it might take a little longer to complete.

I recommend that you start gently by joining the Social Gathering Support Group so you can get to meet other hoarders who are already successfully clearing their clutter on the 7 Step Journey.

Once your confidence grows and you start to believe you MIGHT be able to clear your clutter then you can actually start your 7 Step Journey.

I do recommend that hoarders have 2 types of support outside of the 7 Step Journey:

• A friend, neighbour, social worker - anyone who is supportive of you doing your 7 Step Journey and can watch the videos and do the exercises with you. All they need to do is arrange to come and watch the online videos with you and help you do the exercises. It means you will also have someone who is learning what you're learning so they understand the reasons behind why you struggle with your clutter.

• A Therapist/counsellor. If you are a hoarder, you will almost certainly experience anxiety at some point on your 7 Step Journey and this can increase even in Step 1 when we start to look at WHY we have our Clutter Challenge. I recommend that hoarders start their weekly Counselling/therapy BEFORE they start their 7 Step Journey so that they can get comfortable with their counsellor/therapist before starting. You will need to commit to having weekly counselling/therapy for at least 18 months while you are on your 7 Step Journey, therefore you are likely to have to privately fund this as state funded programmes are usually only short term.