Claire Laforges, BACP

Claire Laforges is a BACP-registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, depression and concerns linked to sexual function and LGBTQIA+ matters. She also has experience with ADHD, addictions, parenting strains and career-related stress.

Claire offers a straightforward, conversational style in sessions. She listens closely and uses client-centred techniques to help people make sense of how past experiences affect current feelings. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at patterns in close relationships.

Her background includes outreach work in community settings, phone sessions and online work. She has worked with both children and adults and has used a range of practical tools and therapeutic theories in those roles. She completed foundation-level BICA infertility training and works as a clinical supervisor in the UK.

In sessions Claire helps people understand causes of stress and anxiety, and the ways grief, health concerns or life changes can affect day-to-day functioning. She also supports people dealing with body image, sexual health and intimacy challenges, and with coping strategies for chronic illness or caregiver strain.

Her approach blends client-centred listening, attachment-based thinking and mindfulness practices when useful. She also uses relationship-focused models such as the Gottman Method and Imago ideas when people want to work on partnership patterns. Practical exercises, reflective talking and gradual pacing are typical parts of how she works.

How Claire uses attachment and client-centred ideas online