About Claire
Claire Gallaugher is a counsellor with 15 years of experience helping people sort relationship and family concerns. She works with individuals facing anxiety, depression, grief and stress, and supports those coping with trauma, intimacy issues and addiction. Claire aims to listen with respect and sensitivity and to tailor sessions to each person's situation.
She draws on several approaches to meet different needs. Claire uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and emotional bonds.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive behavioural tools to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Emotion-focused ideas help people name and work through strong emotions. Claire offers practical steps as well as space to talk.
Sessions are shaped around what the client wants to achieve, whether that is better sleep, calmer reactions to anger, or more confidence at work. She also supports parents dealing with blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and communication problems.
Her background includes work across a variety of relationship and trauma-related areas, including domestic violence, family of origin issues, abandonment and attachment difficulties. Claire is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging.
International clients can be seen, and contracts are subject to Northern Ireland and UK jurisdiction where applicable. If someone wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time.
How Claire’s approaches translate to online therapy
Claire often uses attachment-based ideas to help people notice patterns in close relationships and to understand emotional needs. This work can help when trust, abandonment or communication problems are part of the difficulty. Claire also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of responding to anxiety, low mood or compulsive behaviours.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Claire will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit a client's goals and preferences, adjusting what they do as progress is made. Clients and therapist set aims together and review them regularly to keep work relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video can suit in-depth talks and visual cues, phone sessions are useful if bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or when people prefer not to be on camera. These options help fit therapy around work, family life and different schedules while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional processing.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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