About Claire
Claire Laforges is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She holds BACP accreditation and offers practical support for stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. She also helps people facing grief, intimacy-related issues, addictions and the challenges that come with life changes.
Claire works in a straightforward and person-focused way. Sessions aim to help people understand what drives their feelings and behaviours. She uses everyday language and practical tools so clients can try ideas between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes community outreach and online and phone work. She has worked with a wide range of people and draws on several approaches to respond to different needs. She has experience in psychosexual and intimate partner therapy and has completed foundation-level BICA infertility training.
Claire describes herself as a clinical supervisor in the UK and combines that role with direct therapeutic work. She helps people tackle issues such as parenting strain, sleep problems, eating concerns, anger and low self-esteem. She also supports those navigating neurodiversity, chronic health problems and caregiving stress.
In sessions she aims to create a non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. She typically responds to messages within 24 hours on weekdays and updates her availability twice weekly. To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and book according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Claire often draws on attachment-based therapy to help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach looks at emotional bonds and helps when people feel stuck in repeated cycles with others or struggle to trust themselves in relationships.She also uses client-centred therapy which puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps clients find their own solutions, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and self-esteem concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss different methods with each person and decide together what fits best with their goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor the work to real needs rather than following a single formula.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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