About Claire
Claire Phillips is a counsellor with ten years' professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She offers a calm, accepting space where people can talk through painful or confusing thoughts and feelings. Claire aims to help clients make sense of difficult experiences and find practical ways to move forward.
She uses a person-centred style that focuses on listening and responding to each person's unique needs.
Background and approach
That approach sits alongside methods drawn from attachment work and cognitive behavioural ideas to help with unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in her practice to support changes in behaviour and outlook. Her background includes working in NHS surgeries, prisons and drop-in centres.
Claire has worked with people facing complex issues such as self-harm, suicidal thoughts and drug or alcohol problems. She has also supported clients affected by trauma and the longer-term effects of untreated trauma. Claire has spent time living and working in South East Asia and in South East London for over two decades.
This experience informs a culturally sensitive way of working and an awareness of different life circumstances. She reflects on strengths and resilience as part of the therapeutic journey. People often seek Claire's help for stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family concerns, grief, sleep or eating difficulties and low self-esteem.
She also supports those coping with major life changes and neurodiverse presentations such as ADHD. Her practice is aimed at helping individuals discover their own resources and make steady progress.
Approaches that suit online therapy and anxiety work
Claire blends a person-centred way of working with clear, practical tools. Client-Centred Therapy means she listens closely and centres sessions on what matters most to the person. This helps build trust and makes time for difficult feelings to be talked through.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments to change it. CBT can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood because it focuses on day-to-day thoughts and actions that maintain distress.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in relationships and emotion. It can help when people struggle with intimacy, abandonment fears or repeating difficult relationship cycles.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, and then try methods that fit. Sessions can adapt over time as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and use screen tools. Phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins and written reflections, which can be easier to fit into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible and help people keep continuity even when routines change.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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