About Claire
Claire Lewis is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and low self-esteem. She uses a calm, straightforward style to make it easier to talk about what is worrying you. Claire notes that taking the first step to seek help can feel hard, and she aims to support people through that initial step and beyond.
Claire holds BACP accreditation, which shows she meets national professional standards.
Background and approach
She has four years of post-qualification experience working in employee assistance settings. In that role she offered short-term support for a wide range of concerns and life changes. For the past three years Claire has also supported neurodiverse university students.
Much of that work has been medium to long term and has involved helping people manage study stress, social challenges and emotional regulation. She also has experience helping with family conflict and relationship problems. Her approach is integrative, anchored in a person-centred way of working and drawing on psychodynamic ideas, Gestalt, cognitive behavioural techniques and solution-focused strategies.
In practice this means sessions focus on listening, understanding patterns, developing practical skills and setting realistic goals. Claire aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where people feel heard. She works collaboratively, helping clients decide what feels most useful and adapting the style to individual needs.
Sessions can be short-term or longer depending on what each person wants to work on.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Claire uses a mix of person-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques. Person-centred work focuses on listening, empathy and helping you make sense of feelings, which can be effective across video, phone or messaging. Cognitive behavioural techniques introduce practical steps to manage anxiety and stress such as breathing exercises, behavioural experiments and thought records that are easy to use between sessions.She also draws on solution-focused ideas to set small, achievable goals and on psychodynamic thinking to look at recurring patterns in relationships. Finding the right combination is a collaborative process - the therapist will work with you to decide which approaches fit your goals and preferences and adjust the plan as you progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video gives a face-to-face feel for deeper conversations, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around study, work or family life and to keep progress moving even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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