About Clair
Clair Atkinson is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and low self-esteem. She draws on five years of counselling experience and a long career as a registered nurse to offer calm, steady support. Clair works in English and accepts international clients.
Clair believes people are the experts in their own lives. She listens without judgement and helps clients notice their strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps that feel workable for each person.
Background and approach
Her background includes a Master’s in Counselling and Psychotherapy and five years practising as a counsellor alongside thirty three years as a registered nurse. That combination informs a gentle, person-focused way of working. Clair uses a client-centred approach that aims to make people feel heard and respected.
She avoids telling people what to do and instead helps them explore options and make their own choices. People come to Clair with a wide range of difficulties, including relationship matters, parenting stress, career concerns, sleeping or eating issues, chronic health challenges and questions about identity. She also supports those dealing with grief, compassion fatigue and the effects of trauma.
Sessions can be by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Clair explains how the process works and helps people choose formats that fit their life and goals. Taking the first step can feel hard.
Clair offers steady, empathic support to help people find clearer ways through their problems and build on what already works for them.
Client-centred care online and how it helps
Client-Centred Therapy places the person and their experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens carefully, reflects what she hears and helps people identify their own priorities. This style is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, grief and relationship concerns where being heard makes a practical difference.The therapist will work collaboratively to find the right way forward. Together they will consider the person’s needs, goals and preferences and agree how to proceed. Finding the best approach is part of the therapy, not something decided in advance by the counsellor.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls are good for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging helps people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties, health needs or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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