Claire Cowper
Person-centred counsellor blending practical and reflective work
About Claire
Claire Cowper works using a person-centred approach that keeps the client at the heart of sessions. She draws on practical methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques alongside psychodynamic ideas to help untangle patterns. Claire has four years of experience working with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or depression.
She supports those coping with grief and loss and helps people manage relationship and family strains. Her practice also covers issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and blended family challenges.
Background and approach
Other areas of focus include chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and eating or food-related difficulties. Claire explains things plainly and adapts conversation to each person. Sessions are framed around what the individual wants to change and what feels manageable to them.
She aims to build a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk through what matters most. In therapy she may help identify unhelpful thinking, examine past patterns that keep repeating, and work with parts of experience that feel stuck. Practical steps and gentle reflection are used together so change can feel achievable.
The approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Claire is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English from the United Kingdom and does not take international clients.
To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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Listed by Claire among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people can lead the pace and topics. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of feelings and decide what to change.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact and uses practical steps to reduce anxiety or low mood. It can be useful for addressing stress, unhelpful thinking and routine patterns that keep problems going.
Psychodynamic approaches examine past patterns and unconscious feelings that repeat in current life. This can help someone understand where recurring relationship or family issues come from and find new ways to respond.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss options and tailor methods to the person’s goals, needs and preferences. She treats this as a collaborative process and adjusts over time as progress becomes clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video suits a fuller face-to-face feel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can work for brief check-ins or flexible timing. These options make it easier to attend sessions from work breaks, home or while travelling and help therapy fit around daily life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
