About Claire
Claire Bennett BA (hons) MBACP is a person-centred counsellor who offers calm, down-to-earth support for people facing anxiety and related concerns. She welcomes clients who want help with stress, low mood, life changes or understanding difficult feelings. Sessions are simple and conversational so people can feel heard and think things through at their own pace.
Claire focuses on helping people name what matters to them. She listens without directing decisions and helps uncover the values and needs that guide choices.
Background and approach
That approach can help with anxiety, grief, self-esteem issues, and problems with sleep or addictive behaviours. Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused work alongside a client-centred stance. In session she helps people notice patterns in relationships, feel and express emotions, and make practical steps that fit their life.
Conversations aim to be straightforward and rooted in everyday experience. Claire trained to a BA (hons) level and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP. She follows the association's ethical framework and carries professional insurance.
Her background includes four years working directly with people in counselling settings. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then arranging times that suit them.
The focus is on helping each person find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
How Claire’s approaches work online
Claire uses a person-centred approach alongside attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to guide online work. Person-centred counselling means sessions are led by the client’s concerns and pace, with the counsellor offering attentive listening and gentle reflection to help clarify feelings and choices. Attachment-based work looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current stress and anxiety, which can help when relationships or trust are part of the difficulty.Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on recognising and naming emotions, and on helping people express feelings in ways that change how they relate to themselves and others. This can be useful for anxiety, grief, and issues where strong emotions repeat in relationships. Claire will discuss these approaches with each person and together they will decide what feels most useful for the goals at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit those who want to be off-camera, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while trying different formats to find what works best.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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