About Clara
Clara Luxford helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and issues linked to identity and relationships. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, grief, intimacy and career transitions. Clara presents as calm and encouraging and focuses on practical steps that can be used between sessions.
Clara has 14 years of professional experience and is accredited with PACFA, the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia. She believes each person knows their story best and brings their own strengths to therapy.
How Clara works
Sessions aim to build on those strengths while offering clear tools for coping and change. Her approach is collaborative. Clara listens, asks practical questions and helps clients set small, manageable goals.
She offers strategies for reducing anxiety, improving sleep and addressing eating or body image concerns in plain, straightforward language. Clara also supports people dealing with identity matters such as gender dysphoria and LGBT concerns, and with complex background issues like adoption, abandonment and family of origin problems.
She addresses intimate and sexual concerns including kink and alternative sexual cultures in a nonjudgemental way. People who work with Clara can expect a warm, pragmatic style and an emphasis on building confidence. She helps clients identify the next right step and practices tasks together so new behaviours feel achievable.
The focus is on real change that fits everyday life.
What Clara works with
The areas below are the ones Clara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options that suit everyday life
Clara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and stress through step-by-step practices and simple exercises that can be used when worries spike. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and distress by helping clients understand how past events affect current feelings and behaviour and then developing coping strategies to reduce their impact.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Clara will discuss options and decide together which methods match the client's needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to try approaches and adjust them if something does not feel like the right fit.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people keep face-to-face connection, phone sessions can be easier when footage or bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat supports short check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time and keep contact consistent when life changes make in-person visits difficult.
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