- Attachment-based work
- Client-centred sessions
- Relationship methods
About Claire
Claire Laforges is a BACP-registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She works with adults who are carrying guilt, shame, stress, anxiety, depression and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her practice also covers grief, parenting strains, ADHD, addictions and issues connected to sexual identity and kink culture.
She uses client-centred and attachment-informed ways of working that focus on what the person brings to the room. Sessions are conversational and aim to help people understand patterns in their feelings and behaviour. Mindfulness techniques and relationship approaches such as the Gottman Method and Imago work are sometimes drawn on when relevant to the issue.
Claire has worked across community outreach settings, online and by phone. She has experience with both adults and children in past roles, and she also offers clinical supervision in the UK. Her background includes foundation-level BICA infertility training and a mix of tools and theories gathered over seven years of practice.
In practical terms she tends to respond to messages within 24 hours on weekdays and updates her availability twice weekly. Sessions are presented in a way that aims to help people gain clearer understanding of the causes of guilt, shame and related distress, and to identify small, manageable steps forward.
When someone begins working with Claire, she focuses on clear, steady conversations about what is happening now and how past attachment experiences might shape current feelings. That approach is used to address intimacy problems, relationship conflict, coping with loss and chronic life stressors.
Approaches used in online sessions
Claire draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and interactions; this helps when guilt or shame appears in close relationships or when patterns repeat. Client-centred work means the conversation centres on the person’s experience, with the therapist reflecting and asking questions to clarify what matters most right now. The Gottman Method and Imago Relationship Therapy are relationship-focused tools she may use to address communication, conflict and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will collaborate with the person to decide which methods seem to fit their needs, goals and preferences. That includes checking how comfortable someone feels with mindfulness exercises, talking about attachment history, or trying relationship-focused techniques in sessions.
The original biography notes experience working online and via phone, but does not list all session formats. Confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferable. Registered or accredited professionals can use these conveniences to help therapy sit alongside everyday life rather than replace it entirely.
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Experience
7+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting concerns, addictions and related areas listed on her profile.
How would she approach shame or guilt?
She uses client-centred and attachment-informed approaches to talk through what causes those feelings and how they show up in relationships and self-view.
What experience does she have?
Claire has seven years of professional practice including community outreach, online and phone work, and she offers clinical supervision in the UK.
What are her professional credentials and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be held in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography mentions online and phone experience; confirm current session options before booking to be sure which formats are offered now.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the 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.