About Claire
Claire Bottomley offers a calm, practical space for people wrestling with anxiety, stress or difficult life events. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping clients name their struggles and find steps to feel steadier. Claire works with adults who want to break negative cycles and build clearer ways of coping.
She trained in therapeutic counselling and holds a First Class Honours degree in Therapeutic Counselling. Claire is an Accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, and she also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
These qualifications shape how she blends different methods in sessions. Claire uses a person-centred starting point so clients feel heard and respected. From there she might draw on cognitive behavioural methods to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, or use psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences affect present feelings.
She also applies approaches that focus on acceptance and values when people are stuck in worry or avoidance. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, parenting strain, sleep problems and struggles with self-esteem. Claire aims to help people spot patterns, try manageable changes and build tools that fit their daily life.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Claire prefers to work together to set clear goals and review progress, so therapy stays relevant and practical.
How Claire uses established approaches online
Claire commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours, which can ease anxiety and improve sleep. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to clarify values and teach ways to live alongside difficult thoughts rather than being controlled by them. Client-Centred Therapy forms the base of her work, ensuring sessions focus on the person's experience and priorities.Choosing an approach happens together. Claire will discuss different methods and agree what to try based on the client's goals and preferences. Therapy is an evolving process and she checks in so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction helps, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging suit people who prefer typing or want brief, ongoing contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on progress and useful skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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