Claire Gallaugher
Calm, practical support for relationship and life change
About Claire
Claire Gallaugher offers calm, practical support for people facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, anxiety and low self-esteem. She communicates in plain language and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and manageable. Claire uses a warm, respectful style and adapts her approach to each person’s needs.
Claire has 15 years of practice in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation. She helps people work through a wide range of issues, including intimacy concerns, anger, addictions, grief, sleeping problems, parenting stresses, career difficulties and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She also addresses attachment, abandonment and family-of-origin problems. Her way of working is collaborative. Sessions are shaped around what the client wants to change and what has been helpful or unhelpful in the past.
Techniques may include looking at thoughts and behaviours, exploring emotional patterns in relationships, and developing practical steps to reduce distress. Claire places emphasis on building a steady working relationship first. That gives space to talk about painful memories or current pressures at a pace that suits the person.
She makes time to check progress and adjust plans where needed. People often come with a mix of concerns and Claire supports a joined-up approach. She accepts international clients and runs sessions under Northern Ireland law.
She invites questions and encourages a short initial process to match needs and expectations.
What Claire works with
How Claire works
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Sessions & fees
How Claire's approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviour. Online sessions use this to identify patterns in close relationships and help people experiment with new ways of relating and coping with loss or abandonment.Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist offers active listening, empathy and acceptance so clients can explore what matters most to them and find their own solutions.
Cognitive behavioural techniques look at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In sessions people learn simple strategies to test unhelpful thoughts, change responses that cause distress, and build practical routines for sleep, stress or mood management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss options and agree a way forward that fits the client's goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and plans are reviewed as things progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or ongoing written work. These options help fit therapy around work, family life and travel, and make it simpler to stay consistent with sessions.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
