About Claire
Claire Kelly is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has three years' counselling experience and a longer background as a bodyworker and holistic therapist, which informs how she listens and works with people. Claire offers calm, practical support for worries about anxiety, stress, grief and more.
She focuses on helping people talk through life transitions and difficult events. That includes loss, chronic illness, and moments that shake a person's sense of direction.
Background and approach
Claire aims to make sessions straightforward and compassionate, with space to name feelings and think about next steps. Her style is person-centred. She helps people uncover their own inner wisdom rather than telling them what to do.
Sessions often involve checking in with feelings, noticing patterns, and finding small, doable changes that help day-to-day life. Claire also brings mindfulness and emotionally focused ideas into her work. These approaches support managing overwhelming emotions and improving how someone relates to themselves and others.
She may use parts-based thinking to help untangle confusing inner experiences. People contact her about many concerns, including parenting strain, ADHD, career stress, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue and attachment or abandonment worries. Claire accepts international clients and runs sessions in English.
She offers several online formats to fit different needs.
How Claire's approaches work online
Claire uses person-centred practice to keep sessions focused on the person rather than the problem. That means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps people find their own answers. This approach suits anyone who wants a gentle, exploratory way of working on anxiety, stress and life changes.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept away by them. Simple awareness exercises and breathing techniques are common tools and can reduce overwhelm during a busy day. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas are used to look at patterns in close relationships and to support stronger emotional connections and clearer communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claire works collaboratively to decide which methods feel helpful based on a person's needs, goals and preferences. She tailors sessions as understanding grows and priorities change.
Online formats allow practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work where bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit people who prefer typing or need asynchronous contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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