Claire Kelly
Person-centred counsellor with a holistic background
About Claire
Claire Kelly trained as a counsellor under the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has three years of counselling experience. She also draws on three decades of work as a bodyworker and holistic therapist. Claire frames her work around helping people find clearer direction when life feels confusing or heavy.
She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can say what they feel. Claire describes her style as person-centred, which means she listens closely and follows the pace each person needs.
Background and approach
That approach helps people find their own inner resources and make choices that feel right for them. Claire supports people facing stress, anxiety and trauma. She also helps with grief, parenting strain, ADHD, intimacy issues and career questions.
Compassion fatigue and long-term illness or pain are part of her focus too. Her work includes attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care experiences, and challenges linked to autism and avoidant or dependent personality patterns. She also addresses body image, communication problems, codependency and dissociation.
Claire uses a mix of talking, emotional work and mindfulness to help people manage distress and rebuild balance. She aims for sessions that are practical and grounded, so people leave with clearer steps to try between meetings. People who choose Claire often want a steady, supportive counsellor who listens first and guides gently.
She encourages small changes that add up to clearer direction and greater resilience.
What Claire works with
How Claire works
Listed by Claire among the ways they work.
Listed by Claire among the ways they work.
Listed by Claire among the ways they work.
Listed by Claire among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Claire uses Client-Centred Therapy to prioritise listening and follow each person's lead, helping them feel understood and able to find their own answers. That approach is useful for stress, life transitions and when someone needs a steady space to think things through.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and work with core emotions that drive difficult patterns. EFT can be helpful for intimacy-related struggles, attachment concerns and grief as it focuses on recognising and reshaping emotional responses.
Finding the right approach is often part of the therapy process. Claire works collaboratively to decide what methods fit best, adapting sessions as needs, goals and preferences become clearer over time. She discusses options and checks in about what feels most helpful.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for people juggling busy lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when a fuller exchange is helpful, while phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter reflections or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family or care routines and to continue work between 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
