About Claudia
Claudia Brooker welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or big life changes. She works with individuals on issues such as addiction, depression, low self-esteem and relationship or intimacy concerns. Claudia uses practical conversation and reflective listening to help people find clearer ways forward.
Claudia draws on six years' experience as a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, or BACP. She blends therapy styles to fit each person rather than using one fixed approach.
How Claudia works
Sessions are straightforward and paced to suit how the client prefers to work. Her practice covers a wide range of difficulties including trauma and abuse, parenting and caregiver stress, eating or sleeping problems, ADHD and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on attachment, abandonment and adoption-related matters, plus issues around kink and alternative sexual cultures.
Claudia aims to make space for complex feelings and for practical steps that help day-to-day functioning. Claudia is comfortable working in English and French. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different routines and needs.
Fees vary with location and are organised through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients press the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then book sessions according to the therapist's schedule. Claudia prefers to work collaboratively, helping each person identify goals and ways to reach them.
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What Claudia works with
The areas below are the ones Claudia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, French |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client's lead to build understanding and self-awareness; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and introduces small, practical experiments to reduce unhelpful patterns and improve mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, concentrates on emotions in close relationships and can help when people want to change how they respond to hurt, loneliness or conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claudia collaborates with clients to identify which approaches feel most useful for their aims and preferences. She will explain options, try methods in session, and adjust the plan as progress and new needs become clear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow a near face-to-face conversation and are useful for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to readjust appointments, keep momentum between sessions and fit therapy into a busy life.
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