About Claire
Claire Howdle is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of experience. She works with people struggling with stress and anxiety and with a wide range of related concerns. Her approach aims to make difficult problems easier to talk about and to tackle in everyday life.
Claire offers a warm, non-judgemental space for people to explain what is happening for them. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and practical, with gentle attention to feelings and patterns that cause trouble. Her background includes work with issues such as trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, self-esteem and relationship and family concerns. She also supports people facing body image worries, caregiving stress, abandonment and attachment-related difficulties.
That range means she brings experience to complex situations and to layered problems that overlap. Claire draws on a mix of methods tailored to each person. She uses cognitive behavioural strategies to spot unhelpful thoughts and ACT and mindfulness to build values-based coping.
Attachment-based and client-centred ideas shape how she helps people feel understood and safer to try new ways of relating. Sessions move at a pace set by the person in therapy. Claire focuses on skills that can be used between sessions as well as talking through past experiences when that is helpful.
She aims to support steady, practical steps toward changes people want to make.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify what really matters to them and to act in line with those values. It uses practical exercises and mindful noticing to reduce the power of anxious thoughts and to support coping during life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches straightforward techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating an empathic, non-judgemental space so people can explore their difficulties at their own pace and build stronger self-understanding.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to decide which methods fit best for their goals and situation. Plans are adjusted as the work progresses and as the person notices what helps most.
Online sessions make regular contact easier to maintain. Video calls let conversations feel close to face-to-face, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and short live chat or text messaging is useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options help therapy fit around work, caregiving and everyday life while keeping focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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