Claire Howdle
Warm counsellor for trauma and stress
About Claire
Claire Howdle is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety and depression. She supports people dealing with trauma, relationship and family difficulties, addictions, grief and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. People seeing her can expect a warm and non-judgemental approach that aims to make talking easier and clearer.
Claire adapts her work to each person rather than using a single formula.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and client-centred work to match the needs of the moment. Sessions focus on practical steps, new ways of seeing problems and building the skills needed to cope day to day.
Her practice also addresses more specific concerns like body image, caregiver stress, codependency and issues linked to abandonment or attachment patterns. Claire works with people affected by eating difficulties, anger, compassion fatigue and the aftermath of abuse or major life change. She explains options clearly so clients can choose what feels right.
Claire places importance on collaboration. She listens first, then agrees goals and methods with each person. Progress is tracked in ways that suit the client, whether through short-term plans or a longer course of work.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and are arranged via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What Claire works with
How Claire works
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Sessions & fees
How Claire’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people focus on what matters to them and build actions that match their values. It can ease anxiety and help with coping through painful thoughts or memories. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms such as low mood or worry. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how past relationships shape current ways of relating and can be useful for people struggling with intimacy, abandonment or trust issues.Deciding which approach to use is part of the therapy process. Claire works collaboratively to clarify what the person wants to change and which methods might help. She reviews progress and adjusts the plan together so the work feels relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and have fuller conversations, while phone sessions can fit around busy days or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, care routines or other responsibilities while working with registered or accredited professionals and therapists.
| 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
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
