About Claire
Claire Lewis offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or relationship strain. She writes in a straightforward way and aims to make the first step feel manageable. Claire is an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings four years of post-qualification experience to her work.
Claire uses a person-centred approach as her base. That means she listens carefully and helps people notice what matters to them.
How Claire works
Counselling sessions often focus on building confidence, working through grief, and finding clearer ways to communicate with others. She has substantial experience helping neurodiverse university students, including medium to long-term work. Claire also has experience with family conflict, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and separation and divorce concerns.
She supports people dealing with attachment worries, abandonment, and feelings of guilt or shame. Sessions have also addressed stress at work, isolation and loneliness, jealousy, and challenges linked to autism and Asperger syndrome. Claire has worked with people affected by domestic violence and antisocial personality concerns, offering steady emotional support during difficult times.
Her style is collaborative and warm. She aims to create a space marked by empathy and unconditional positive regard. If someone wants a counsellor who listens, helps set clear goals, and supports practical steps forward, Claire offers that steady presence.
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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace 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 person-centred listening as a core method, which focuses on helping someone feel heard and understood so they can make their own changes. This approach is useful for building self-esteem, working through grief, and clarifying relationship goals.She also draws on practical, evidence-based techniques to help with anxiety and stress. These techniques break worries into manageable steps, teach simple coping strategies, and help people try out new ways of responding to difficult feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss options with each person and choose methods that fit their needs and preferences. That choice is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video helps replicate face-to-face contact, phone can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility for work, study and other commitments while keeping focus on regular progress and clear goals.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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