About Claire
Claire Phillips is a counsellor with ten years of professional practice and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings. Claire aims to help clients notice strengths that already exist and to build small steps forward.
Her background includes extensive time living and working in South East Asia and over two decades in South East London.
How Claire works
That experience informs a culturally aware way of working. Claire has offered counselling in NHS surgeries, prisons and drop-in centres, and in care-home environments with younger people. She has worked with people facing self-harm, suicidal thoughts and drug or alcohol problems, and has developed a practical sense of how trauma shows up in everyday life.
Claire names trauma’s impact on thinking, behaviour, the body and relationships, and she pays attention to those patterns in sessions. Claire draws on approaches that centre the client, while also using practical tools to manage symptoms. Sessions tend to focus on clear, manageable steps alongside time to understand feelings and attachment patterns.
She encourages mindfulness and reflection as part of day-to-day coping. People come for help with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, low self-esteem and challenges around intimacy and relationships. Claire also supports those dealing with grief, parenting strain, sleep or eating concerns, and life changes such as separation.
Her work combines listening with practical strategies for moving forward.
Claire lists 6 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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| 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 counselling to place the person’s experience at the heart of therapy, offering non-judgemental listening and space to speak. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and to make sense of their feelings without pressure.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical steps to change day-to-day reactions. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and patterns that keep problems going. Mindfulness techniques are used alongside these approaches to build awareness of bodily sensations and to reduce reactivity in stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Claire will discuss goals and preferences, then try methods that fit the client’s needs. That collaborative process means plans can change as understanding grows and progress becomes clearer.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy around busy schedules. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when less bandwidth is needed, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging can help keep momentum between sessions. These options increase flexibility and make regular contact more achievable for many people.
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