Claire Cotgrove
Affirming person-centred counselling for trauma and identity
About Claire
Claire Cotgrove offers a calm, accepting space for people to talk about sexuality, gender, trauma and neurodivergence. She welcomes honest conversation and focuses on what each person brings to the room. Claire aims to help people feel less stuck and more understood through steady, compassionate support.
Claire uses a person-centred approach that keeps the client's experience at the heart of therapy. She listens without judgement and helps people make sense of difficult feelings.
Background and approach
This style is gentle and paced to what the client needs at the time. Alongside person-centred work, Claire draws on trauma-focused therapy for those who have experienced abuse or coercive relationships. That approach helps people process painful memories and reduce their impact on everyday life.
Sessions may include talking, reflecting, and practical ways to manage flashbacks or distressing thoughts. Claire has three years' experience and holds BACP accreditation, which reflects her professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works with a wide range of concerns including LGBT matters, relationship difficulties, intimacy issues and ADHD-related challenges.
She also supports people with concerns such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, autism and Asperger syndrome, BDSM and kink, blended family pressures, chronic illness or pain, and issues around gender dysphoria. The focus in sessions is on understanding what matters to each person and trying approaches that fit their life.
People who choose to work with Claire can expect a warm, non-judgemental atmosphere and practical conversation about next steps. Therapy is tailored to the individual's goals and reviewed as they progress.
What Claire works with
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Sessions & fees
How Claire's approaches work online
Claire offers person-centred therapy which places the client's experience at the centre of every session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people find their own solutions, which can suit issues around identity, self-esteem and relationship patterns.She also uses trauma-focused therapy for people who have experienced abuse or coercive relationships. That work helps people process memories and reduce their impact through careful, paced discussion and coping strategies tailored to the individual.
Deciding on the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Claire will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's needs, goals and preferences, checking in and adjusting as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging suits people who prefer writing between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and life commitments while keeping the focus on achievable steps and progress.
| 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
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
