About Claire
Claire Smith is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and the impact of trauma and abuse. She supports those facing relationship and family difficulties, grief, parenting strain, eating and body image concerns, and career or life changes. Claire also works with clients dealing with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue.
She holds BACP accreditation and has four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
How Claire works
Claire uses a straightforward, person-centred way of working. Sessions are shaped around each individual’s needs and goals. She listens first, then suggests practical tools and small steps to try between meetings.
The focus is on what will make daily life feel more manageable. Her background includes work in high-pressure settings where she supported people with severe mental health needs. That experience informs her calm, steady approach when someone is overwhelmed or coping with complex difficulties.
Claire is used to adapting her style for neurodiverse clients, including those with ADHD and autism. Therapy sessions may draw on cognitive methods to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance strategies to reduce struggle, and attachment-focused ideas to improve how people relate. Dialectical skills are used when emotions feel intense, and client-centred talking keeps the relationship respectful and collaborative.
Claire aims to make starting therapy feel achievable. She will tailor a plan that fits practical life demands and personal preferences. The initial conversations focus on priorities, manageable steps, and clear options for moving forward.
Claire lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It encourages identifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values, which can help when life feels stuck or stressful.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship experiences shape current connections. It can help people understand patterns in relationships and build more supported ways of relating to others.
Claire also uses client-centred methods that put the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. This means conversations move at the client’s pace, and Claire follows the concerns the person brings rather than imposing a strict plan.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Claire will work with each person to figure out which ideas and techniques suit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the focus if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions can be easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow visual connection for more relational work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want ongoing short exchanges, or find typing helps them express themselves. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy going around everyday commitments.
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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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