About Claire
Claire Cowper is a counsellor who uses a person-focused approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She draws on practical methods alongside talking therapy to support clients who are finding day-to-day life hard. Claire works with people dealing with relationship strain, family difficulties, grief and depression.
She has four years of professional experience practising in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Background and approach
Claire aims to listen without judgement and to adapt conversations to each person’s needs. Sessions typically focus on what is most pressing right now and on small, doable steps forward. Claire blends client-centred work with cognitive and deeper psychodynamic ideas.
She uses these approaches to help people understand patterns, test new ways of coping and change unhelpful thinking. Internal Family Systems can also be used to look at different parts of a person’s inner world and how they affect feelings and behaviour. In sessions she pays attention to practical outcomes.
That can mean practising breathing or grounding, challenging a repetitive worry, or trying out new ways to talk with someone at home. She will agree clear aims and revisit them as progress is made. Claire describes her role as supportive and empowering.
She offers a calm space for people to sort through difficult emotions and to plan steps towards feeling more able to manage everyday demands.
How Claire’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy places the client’s experience at the heart of the work. The therapist follows the person’s lead, offers reflective listening and helps people feel heard so they can make their own changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours; it often uses practical exercises and short tasks between sessions to reduce anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claire will work collaboratively to decide whether person-centred listening, cognitive work, or psychodynamic reflection is most helpful. She checks in about goals and preferences and adapts the plan as the work progresses.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief exchanges and ongoing reflection possible between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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