Claire Ashby
Calm, practical support for anxiety and sleep issues
About Claire
Claire Ashby welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low mood or sleep problems. She introduces straightforward strategies so people can begin to feel steadier and more able to manage daily life. Claire explains things simply and aims to create a calm space where clients can talk and be heard.
Claire is a counsellor and hypnotherapist with six years of practice and NCPS credentialing. She blends person-centred listening with practical techniques to address panic, phobias, insomnia and low motivation.
Background and approach
Sessions commonly focus on building coping skills and breaking patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. Her background includes work as a social worker supporting people affected by trauma, loss and abuse. That experience informs an understanding of how difficult life events can change routines and coping strategies.
Claire draws on that knowledge when helping people regain energy and day-to-day functioning. Claire uses a tailored mix of approaches. Cognitive behavioural ideas can help change unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
Hypnotherapy and mindfulness techniques support relaxation and shifting deeper patterns. Motivational interviewing helps clarify goals and keep change on track. Practical tools are part of the work.
Clients are offered relaxation practices, thought-challenging exercises and steps to improve sleep. Sessions aim to leave people with clear actions to try between meetings. Claire works with English-speaking clients in the United Kingdom and with international clients by online formats.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches for online change and relaxation
Claire uses client-centred work to prioritise the concerns you bring and to create a collaborative pace. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping you identify your own solutions while feeling supported by the therapist.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviours. It helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems by giving simple exercises to do between sessions. Hypnotherapy supports deep relaxation and can help shift longstanding habits or beliefs that get in the way of feeling well.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss options and try what fits best with your goals and preferences. She encourages a joint process so techniques match how you like to work and what you hope to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different days and needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be a lighter check-in and text or chat works for brief updates or short-term support. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare or travel while keeping regular contact with a therapist.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
