About Claudia
Claudia Brooker is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. She offers conversations that are down to earth and focused on practical steps. Claudia speaks English and French and aims to make sessions straightforward and easy to follow.
She tailors each session to the person in front of her. That can mean a mix of talking about thought patterns, working on emotions, or looking at how past experiences shape current choices.
Background and approach
Claudia draws on several therapeutic traditions to shape a plan that fits the individual's needs and goals. Claudia has six years of professional experience in the field. Over that time she has worked with a wide range of difficulties including depression, addictions, trauma and burnout, low self-esteem and relationship struggles.
She is also experienced with issues linked to neurodiversity, attachment and adoption and foster care concerns. In practice she offers a blend of practical strategies and emotionally focused work. That might include techniques to change unhelpful thinking as well as exercises that help people notice and process feelings.
Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on real-life goals such as better sleep, calmer days, or clearer communication. Claudia also brings multicultural awareness from her own background as a third culture individual. She uses that perspective to support people from diverse ethnic and faith backgrounds and those in sexual minorities.
Therapy is available online by video, phone, chat or text based messaging.
How Claudia bridges therapeutic approaches with online work
Claudia often draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT offers clear exercises and practical steps that can help with anxiety, stress and sleep problems.She also uses emotionally focused therapy to help people understand and work with feelings. That approach helps when strong emotions are getting in the way of daily life or relationships, and can be useful for grief, trauma responses and intimacy related issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Claudia works collaboratively to choose methods that match a client's goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as work progresses. Clients can expect a mix of gentle reflection and practical homework based on what they need.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls are closest to in-person work and let people use visual cues. Phone sessions can be a lower bandwidth option or fit into a short break. Live chat or text based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when written reflection feels helpful. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, parenting or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French
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