About Claire
Claire Ashby is a counsellor and hypnotherapist who helps people who feel held back by anxiety, stress, sleep problems or specific fears. She welcomes straightforward conversations and practical steps you can use between sessions. Claire works online and with international clients, aiming to make therapy manageable for busy lives.
Claire combines counselling and hypnotherapy to break repeating cycles of worry and low mood. She often uses a person-centred way of working that focuses on what matters to the individual.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness techniques are available too when they suit the person's goals. Her background includes work as a social worker supporting adults and children affected by trauma, loss and mental health difficulties. That experience informs how she notices patterns that keep a person stuck and how to approach change in small, steady steps.
Clients come for help with anxiety, panic, phobias and insomnia as well as low mood, grief and relationship or family tensions. Claire also supports people dealing with neurodivergence, ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, and caregiver stress. Claire holds NCPS as a credential and has six years' experience in counselling and hypnotherapy.
She aims to help people reconnect with their own strengths, reduce symptoms that interfere with daily life and work toward clearer, achievable goals.
How Claire uses therapy approaches online
Claire uses person-centred work to put the client's goals at the heart of each session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people name what they most want to change, which suits issues like low mood, relationship difficulties and life transitions.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours. It gives clear, step-by-step exercises for managing anxiety, panic and sleep problems and can be practised between sessions.
Hypnotherapy is offered as a complementary option to help with deep relaxation and shifting automatic patterns that keep problems repeating. It is often used alongside talking therapy to support confidence, reduce phobic reactions and ease stress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match the client's needs and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. Clients shape the pace and choices throughout the work.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone suits shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief updates and flexible contact between appointments. Registered or accredited professionals use these formats to widen access and offer practical options for people with busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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