About Claire
Claire Gillyon is a counsellor who aims to make asking for help feel easier. She meets people where they are and offers a calm, steady presence. Claire works to help people raise self-awareness and find gentler ways to manage life's demands.
Claire uses a mix of talking therapies to address stress, anxiety and related concerns. She includes approaches such as client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice patterns and try practical changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas are also part of her way of looking at feelings and relationships. Her practice supports people facing addiction, relationship strains, parenting stress and difficulties with self-esteem. She also helps with coping through life changes, intimacy questions, eating concerns and depression.
Additional areas she will work with include ADHD, compassion fatigue and a variety of attachment and identity issues. Claire has four years of experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English and welcomes people in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Sessions are offered online in several formats to suit different needs. To begin, people use the site matching process to select the Start Therapy button, complete a short questionnaire, and arrange sessions according to her schedule. Claire aims to build trust first and then help clients try practical steps that fit their lives.
How Claire’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, listens closely and helps people make sense of their feelings and choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact and offers clear, practical steps to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice the present moment and reduce reactivity, which can be useful for stress and rumination.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Claire will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods together with the client. This collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as needs change.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions can be a better choice when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter contacts or people who prefer not to use voice or video. These options offer flexibility and help people keep continuity of care across distances and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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