MEET THE professional cuddler who charges SEVENTY-FIVE-POUNDS per hour for her platonic therapeutic cuddling sessions after breaking free from her former life as a programme developer that left her unfulfilled.

Cuddlist, Clarissa Berkman (49) from Santa Cruz, California, USA, has been providing cuddling as a form of therapy to those who are feeling lost in life thanks to stress, grief or health issues for two years.

Before this, she was a successful programme developer who worked in a national laboratory which afforded her a big house and lawyer husband. From the outside, Clarissa looked like she had the perfect life that society expected of her but inside she felt unhappy and unfulfilled as she wasn’t connected to her heart and let her success be defined by her surroundings, not the happiness in her soul.

Seven years ago, Clarissa quit her job and decided to study tantra, developing skills in meditation, compassionate communication, embodiment and sacred sexuality. It was here when Clarissa learnt about becoming a cuddlist, someone who uses consensual non-sexual touch as a form of therapy to strangers

Since becoming a cuddlist, Clarissa has had hundreds of clients come to her from all walks of life anywhere from the age of 21 up to 85. A session usually lasts around 90 minutes at a cost of £75 ($100) per hour.

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