About Claire
Claire Exley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, stress and changes in relationships. She aims to create a respectful and compassionate space for people to talk about what matters to them.
Claire works with everyday problems such as relationship tension, family difficulties, grief and loss. She also supports people facing low self-esteem, trouble sleeping, anger, career uncertainty and the emotional side of major life changes.
Background and approach
She can talk through issues linked to trauma and abuse, bipolar moods and depression. Her style is person-centred - that means sessions are shaped around each person rather than a fixed formula. Claire listens first, then works with the client to set goals and agree helpful ways forward.
Conversations are straightforward and practical, with space to reflect and try new coping strategies. She also pays attention to attachment patterns, feelings of emptiness, codependency and control issues. Areas like abandonment, dissociation, fatherhood issues and hospice or end-of-life concerns are within her scope when these come up in conversation.
The aim is to help people feel clearer about choices and more steady in daily life. Claire offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then sessions are scheduled according to availability.
Person-centred care and online access
Claire uses a client-centred approach that focuses on the person rather than a fixed treatment plan. This means the first sessions are mainly about listening, understanding your priorities and working out what small steps might help. It suits people coping with anxiety, relationship strain, grief and life changes because it concentrates on what you need in the moment.The aim is collaborative. Claire will work with each person to decide which ways of working feel most useful. Over time the approach can be adjusted based on how goals and symptoms change, and the therapist will invite feedback to make sure sessions stay relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller exchange helps. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break or quieter moment. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, family or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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