About Claire
Claire Ashby offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or low mood. She speaks plainly and helps clients find small changes that make daily life easier. Claire uses counselling and hypnotherapy to reduce panic, manage sleep problems and ease phobias so people can get back to everyday activities.
Claire brings six years of experience and holds NCPS as a credential. She trained as a counsellor and hypnotherapist and has worked as a social worker with adults and children who experienced trauma, loss or abuse.
How Claire works
That background informs a steady, grounded way of working with difficult emotions and distress. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual. Claire blends a person-centred style with practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness.
Hypnotherapy and motivational interviewing are available where helpful to shift habits and boost motivation. Therapy typically involves learning techniques to lower anxiety, improve sleep and manage intrusive thoughts. Claire offers guided relaxation, grounding work and simple steps to rebuild confidence and daily routine.
She also helps with relationship stress, parenting strain, grief and career worries. Clients may use counselling alone, hypnotherapy alone, or a combination depending on goals. Sessions are offered in English and can be delivered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging for those outside the local area.
Claire lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Claire works with
The areas below are the ones Claire selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Claire’s approaches work online
Claire uses a person-centred approach to create a supportive space where the client leads the pace and focus. This helps when someone needs to talk through feelings, make sense of difficult events or build resilience.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change them. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems because it gives clear exercises and steps to follow between sessions.
Hypnotherapy offers guided relaxation and imagery to access deeper patterns that maintain anxiety or poor sleep. When combined with counselling, it can help change habits and strengthen motivation for lasting change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire discusses options and adapts methods based on the client’s goals, preferences and how they respond. This collaborative process means plans can change as progress is made.
Online sessions by video, phone, live chat or text messaging make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit longer conversations and body language cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel.
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