About Claire
Claire Kleynhans is a degree-qualified counsellor and psychotherapist with eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and works with people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression and relationship difficulties. Claire aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can begin to feel less alone with their problems.
She helps people make sense of loss, body image concerns, identity questions and a loss of purpose.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with anger, codependency, family conflict and the aftermath of childhood or relational trauma. Claire is experienced in working with issues linked to ADHD and abuse as well as grief and intimacy-related concerns. In sessions she listens carefully and tailors a plan to each person’s needs.
She focuses on practical steps that fit into everyday life alongside deeper work on attachment and meaning. Claire encourages people to reconnect with themselves and with what matters to them. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred methods and cognitive behavioural tools, with mindfulness and existential perspectives as needed.
Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and pace. Claire emphasises collaboration and clarity about what will be helpful. If someone feels stuck or overwhelmed, she aims to help them find a manageable way forward.
The first step is often small but meaningful - talking things through, making a plan and trying one change at a time.
How Claire's approaches work online
Claire uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach can help when trust, closeness or repeated relationship patterns cause distress.She also uses client-centred methods which focus on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. That helps people feel heard and make clearer choices about what they want to change.
Claire applies cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behaviour changes. These tools are useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with stressful situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they will choose which methods to try. Sessions are collaborative and may combine different approaches over time to suit changing needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow real-time face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, between-session reflection or when written expression is easier.
These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel, and they allow people to access therapists in different locations. Registered or accredited professionals can guide a person through which format will best support their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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