Claire Gillyon
Gentle, practical counselling for change
About Claire
Claire Gillyon is a counsellor who works in a warm, accepting way. She meets people where they are and helps them take the first steps towards change. Claire uses straightforward language and a calm presence to make sessions feel manageable.
Claire trained to the standards of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has four years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and depression. She also helps with addictions, self-esteem and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Her work includes supporting people with relationship and intimacy-related issues. She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, family concerns, eating and body-image problems. Claire takes time to understand how past experiences affect present behaviour.
In sessions she blends client-centred listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy. Mindfulness techniques are used to calm racing thoughts and bring attention to the present. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas and Internal Family Systems to map inner parts and old patterns.
Claire aims for therapy that feels doable. Conversations are paced to match each person’s needs and goals. People can expect a respectful, steady approach with practical steps to try between sessions.
What Claire works with
How Claire works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches and online support that fit your life
Claire blends client-centred therapy with cognitive behavioural therapy to make online sessions practical and approachable. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgement, which helps build trust and clarify goals. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers tools to change unhelpful patterns.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help calm overwhelm and bring attention back to the present. Mindfulness is useful for anxiety, stress and emotion regulation because it teaches simple breathing and attention exercises that can be practised between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and how a method fits the issue at hand. This collaborative process means plans can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers a lot of practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules or travel make in-person sessions hard. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief reflections or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and different routines.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
