About Claire
Claire Gillyon is a counsellor who focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety and life changes. She meets people where they are and works at a gentle pace. Claire uses practical conversation and steady support to help people feel less stuck and more able to cope.
Claire draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person. She uses client-centred techniques to follow the person's priorities and create a trusting space.
How Claire works
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps to identify unhelpful thinking and develop clearer behavioural steps. Mindfulness practices are offered to calm the body and improve focus when stress or anxiety feel overwhelming. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time and Internal Family Systems to notice inner parts that hold different feelings or roles.
With four years' experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), Claire has supported people with addiction, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and low self-esteem. She also works with parenting stress, compassion fatigue, eating issues and ADHD-related challenges.
Sessions can address a wide range of concerns such as body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress, attachment and dissociation, or communication and commitment worries. Claire aims to help people find practical ways to manage day-to-day life while exploring deeper patterns that affect how they relate to themselves and others.
Claire lists 5 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| 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 Client-Centred Therapy to follow what matters most to each person, offering a listening space where the client's concerns set the pace. This approach helps with building trust, practising new ways of relating, and deciding what to focus on in sessions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours. CBT offers concrete steps people can try between sessions, which can help with anxiety, low mood, habit change and some addiction-related patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then choose techniques together. That collaborative process means plans are adjusted if something doesn't fit or if priorities change over time.
Online sessions make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing body language matters. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or suit lower bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for shorter reflections, daily check-ins or when typing out thoughts helps someone process them.
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