- Person-centred approach
- Emotion-focused work
- Mindfulness practices
About Claire
Claire Kelly is a BACP-registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of formal counselling experience and earlier work spanning bodywork and holistic therapy. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting pressures, ADHD, intimacy-related issues, career concerns and compassion fatigue. Claire also addresses related areas such as attachment and abandonment, adoption and foster care, chronic illness and caregiver strain.
Claire describes her approach as person-centred. She focuses on helping people notice their own inner resources and make sense of painful memories or current pressures. Sessions are conversational and paced to the person's needs, not rushed. The aim is to help individuals untangle small and large problems so they can make clearer choices.
In practice Claire brings client-centred core work together with techniques from Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Internal Family Systems. She also uses mindfulness tools to help settle thinking and increase awareness of bodily responses to stress. These methods are used to address grief, trauma responses and relationship-related struggles.
People contact her for help with changing difficult patterns, managing overwhelming feelings, or coping with loss and illness. She pays attention to how past experiences such as adoption or attachment issues continue to affect present life. Sessions include exploring thoughts, emotions and practical ways to respond differently.
Claire offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Before booking, readers should confirm current session formats and practical arrangements.
How Claire uses therapy approaches online
Client-Centred Therapy is a conversational way of working that focuses on the person's experience and choices. It involves reflective listening and helping someone notice their own strengths to make clearer decisions about relationships, parenting and work pressures.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on how emotions shape interactions and attachment. It helps people identify painful emotional patterns and try new ways of responding in close relationships or when feeling shame and guilt.
Mindfulness Therapy offers simple practices to slow down thinking and notice bodily signals. These exercises can reduce rumination and help when anxiety, grief or chronic illness make concentration difficult.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss different methods and agree a way forward based on each person's needs, goals and preferences. She treats the choice as collaborative and adjusts methods as the work unfolds.
Practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into busy lives and reducing travel time. Online sessions can make it easier to schedule brief check-ins during a lunch break or to continue work when illness or caregiving limits leaving home. Confirm the session formats offered before booking to ensure they suit your circumstances.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting pressures, ADHD, intimacy-related issues, career concerns and compassion fatigue, plus related problems such as attachment and abandonment.
How does she approach guilt or shame related problems?
Her person-centred style focuses on listening and helping people uncover their own inner resources. She combines client-centred conversation with emotionally-focused and internal-family-system ideas to look at painful feelings and how they show up in life.
What is her background and experience?
Claire has three years of formal counselling experience and earlier work over three decades as a bodyworker and holistic therapist, which informs her practical, embodied approach.
Is she registered with any professional body in the UK?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients; check session arrangements to make sure they work for your time zone.
What session formats are offered?
Session formats are not specified here; please confirm current options before booking so you know whether video, phone or another format is available.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time; specific pricing depends on where you are based.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.