About Claire
Claire Howdle is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are anxious, struggling with stress, coping with loss, or facing relationship and parenting challenges. Claire also supports people dealing with trauma, addictions, phobias and changes that feel overwhelming.
Claire practises in a person-centred way and adapts to what each person needs in the room. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy alongside attachment-focused ideas and mindfulness.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking and noticing patterns that keep difficulties going. Over five years Claire has helped people address low self-esteem, anger, intimacy concerns and eating or body image worries. She also works with issues linked to abandonment, caregiving stress, blended family tensions and adjustment after illness or loss.
The aim is to help people build coping skills and move toward goals that matter to them. In a session Claire listens calmly and asks questions that help people make meaning of their experience. Conversations are respectful and non-judgemental.
She supports people to try small changes between sessions and to notice what helps and what does not. If someone wants to begin, Claire asks them to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. Sessions are offered in several online formats to suit different needs.
How Claire brings therapeutic approaches to online work
Claire commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments that change how they feel and act; this is useful for anxiety, phobias and low mood. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy which supports people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match their values and goals.The process of finding the right approach is collaborative. Claire will talk with the person about their goals and try brief techniques to see what helps. Together they adjust methods so the work fits the person's needs and pace rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer discussion is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit reflection into a busy day or to record thoughts between sessions. These formats help people keep continuity of care when travel or time is difficult, while still focusing on clear steps and regular review.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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