Claire Exley
Practical, compassionate therapy for life changes
About Claire
Claire Exley draws on three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom to support people facing difficult life moments. She holds BACP accreditation and approaches work with respect, sensitivity and compassion. Claire aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s situation.
She keeps the first sessions straightforward and practical so people can decide if it feels like a fit. Claire spends time listening to what matters most in a few clear questions.
Background and approach
She helps people sort relationship strain, family problems and grief into small, manageable steps. Practical goals might include improving sleep, handling career stress, or finding ways to rebuild confidence after loss. She also supports people with anxiety, depression and bipolar mood concerns, and with issues linked to trauma, abuse and dissociation.
Claire can help with intimacy-related worries, anger, feelings of emptiness, and challenges around control or codependency. Conversations often look at attachment or abandonment themes and how these show up in daily life. Parenting and fatherhood issues, separation and divorce, hospice and end-of-life matters are included among her focus areas.
Sessions aim to clarify choices and create small experiments to try between meetings. Claire explains steps plainly and works at a pace each person can manage. Her style is warm and down-to-earth.
People who appreciate a calm listener and practical, step-by-step support tend to do well with her approach. New clients start with a brief matching questionnaire and then book sessions at times that suit them.
What Claire works with
How Claire works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches and online options that suit your life
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgment and follows what you say. This approach helps when you want to make sense of feelings about relationships, loss, identity or direction in life.The aim is to build a steady, supportive conversation that leads to clearer choices. Sessions focus on what you want to change and on small, practical steps to try between meetings. The therapist will work collaboratively to find which methods feel most helpful for your goals and preferences.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when you want face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, ongoing reflection, or for people who prefer not to use a camera.
These options make it easier to attend from different locations and at different times. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt pace and format so therapy fits around work, parenting, or travel. The focus stays on practical progress and finding a way of working that suits each person.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
