About Claire
Claire Kleynhans is a counsellor with eight years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Claire aims to offer a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and find clearer ways forward.
She helps with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, ADHD and addictions. She also supports people dealing with grief, body image and identity questions, parenting stress, and challenges linked to caregiving and chronic illness.
How Claire works
Claire works with issues such as codependency, anger, intimacy questions and coping with major life changes. Claire uses a blend of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and on client-centred work to focus on each person’s own goals.
Cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness practices are included where they help people manage thoughts, feelings and day-to-day coping. Sessions are structured around what the person needs that week. Claire listens closely and co-creates a plan that can include practical exercises, breathing or grounding techniques, and reflection about patterns from the past.
She aims for clear, straightforward steps people can try between sessions. Claire describes her style as compassionate and down-to-earth. She encourages gentleness with oneself while making steady progress.
For people feeling stuck, she offers a patient partner to explore options and rebuild a sense of purpose.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Claire uses attachment-based ideas to examine how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people notice how they relate to others and to themselves, which can be useful for relationship, abandonment and attachment issues.She also uses client-centred counselling, which places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor reflects and listens without judgement, helping people find their own answers and clarify personal goals.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when helpful to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments that change feelings and behaviour. These methods are practical and often suit issues such as anxiety, low mood and managing daily stress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss your needs, goals and preferences, and together you will decide which methods to try and how to adapt them over time. The process is collaborative and can change as you make progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can provide quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family and caring commitments while maintaining steady progress.
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