- Person-centred approach
- Emotion-focused work
- Mindfulness practice
About Claire
Claire Kelly is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of formal counselling experience and a longer career in bodywork and holistic therapies. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, intimacy-related issues, career concerns and compassion fatigue. Claire also lists several related focus areas including attachment issues, adoption and foster care, and chronic illness.
Claire describes a person-centred approach. She listens for what matters to each person and helps them notice their own understanding and resources. Sessions are conversational and grounded in everyday language rather than technical terms.
Her background in bodywork and holistic therapy informs how she attends to emotional and bodily experience together. That experience shapes practical ways she might slow things down, notice physical reactions and bring attention back to what feels manageable in the moment.
Claire works with grief, loss and long-term health challenges alongside more common stresses and anxious patterns. She names issues such as abandonment, codependency and communication problems among the things she helps people talk through.
Clients can expect a focus on emotions and relationships, including methods drawn from Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Internal Family Systems alongside mindfulness and client-centred ways of working. The emphasis is on helping people clarify what they want and find practical next steps.
To begin, people are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session. Sessions use a subscription payment model that can be cancelled at any time, and sessions are offered in English for both UK and international clients.
How Claire uses emotion-focused and mindful work online
Claire draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and name their feelings in relation to others. EFT aims to clarify emotional patterns so people can try different ways of responding to relationship stress and anxiety.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to bring attention to present-moment experience. Mindfulness techniques can help reduce reactivity and make it easier to manage strong sensations or repeated anxious thoughts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful. She treats choosing methods as a collaborative process and adjusts the focus as needs change.
The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm the current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel, allowing shorter check-ins during a work break, or making it simpler to join from a quieter room. Claire's combined focus on emotions and body awareness translates into practical exercises people can use between sessions to notice feelings, try grounding steps and practise new responses in everyday situations.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting issues, ADHD, intimacy-related problems, career worries and compassion fatigue, among other related areas.
How would sessions feel in practice?
Sessions are conversational and person-centred, focusing on what matters to the individual and using clear, everyday language rather than technical terms.
What is Claire's professional background?
She has three years of counselling experience and decades of work in bodywork and holistic therapies, which influence her approach to emotional and bodily experience.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
Claire is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I'm outside the UK?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients, so people outside the UK can enquire and proceed through the platform process.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are payments handled?
Sessions are provided through a subscription payment model, and the subscription can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a first session?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule your first session.