About Claire
Claire Smith is a counsellor with four years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, and trauma and abuse. She supports people dealing with eating and intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, ADHD and neurodiversity-related challenges. She works with those coping with life changes, career strain, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue.
Claire draws practical tools from several well-known approaches, and she adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what the client can manage. She aims to be respectful and sensitive in every meeting. Her background includes work in a children's crisis setting within the UK NHS trust NELFT, where she supported people with severe mental health concerns and higher risk presentations.
That frontline experience informs how she manages safety and structured interventions. Claire uses methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking and elements of dialectical behaviour work to help people notice patterns and try different responses. She explains steps clearly and practises skills together in session.
She holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online in several formats. To begin, people use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Therapeutic approaches and what online therapy offers
Claire frequently uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviours to change feelings. CBT is often useful for anxiety, low mood and patterns that keep problems going.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. ACT can help with stress, avoidance and coping with ongoing challenges.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit each person's situation. That decision is made together and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for longer therapeutic work and seeing non-verbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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