About Claire
Claire Howdle is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety and depression. She offers calm, straightforward support for relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions and struggles with self-esteem. Claire explains things simply and focuses on what will help in day-to-day life.
Claire uses a blend of approaches chosen for each person. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-based ideas alongside client-centred and existential perspectives.
How Claire works
This means sessions can include practical strategies for managing thoughts and feelings, exploring values and improving how people relate to themselves and others. Her background includes five years of professional practice and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
That experience covers a wide range of concerns such as intimacy-related issues, eating and body image, parenting stresses, compassion fatigue and coping with major life changes. Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Claire aims to work at a steady pace, helping people set realistic goals and try small changes that add up.
People who want clear, empathetic support for everyday problems and deeper emotional struggles often choose Claire. She focuses on listening carefully, developing practical tools and supporting each person to make choices that match their values.
Claire lists 9 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Claire adapts therapies for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting swept away by them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with anxiety, depression and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of relating to others and can help with intimacy-related issues and trust problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Claire works collaboratively to identify what fits each person's goals and preferences and may adapt methods over time. That means sessions can combine practical skills, reflective work and value-led planning based on what is most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and have deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when screen use is difficult or bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or when writing helps to process feelings. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family life or limited mobility while maintaining continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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