Claire Laforges
Support for anxiety, relationships and intimacy
About Claire
Claire Laforges offers support for stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, ADHD and addictions. She also helps with eating and sleeping problems, parenting stresses, anger and low self-esteem. Claire works with people facing career pressures, bipolar and depressive episodes, and those coping with life changes or compassion fatigue.
Claire holds BACP registration, which she uses alongside seven years of professional experience. She has worked in outreach community settings and online, and has carried out telephone sessions as part of her practice.
Background and approach
Her background includes client-centred and psychosexual work, plus experience as a clinical supervisor in the United Kingdom. In sessions she keeps language plain and practical. Claire aims to help people understand what drives their stress and anxiety, and to build everyday skills for coping.
She uses gentle, focused conversation to help people talk about grief, sexual difficulties, identity concerns and health-related worries. Her approach is collaborative. Claire listens first, then works with each person to choose ways forward that suit their life.
She offers tools and reflections to help people make small, steady changes rather than sudden overhauls. Communication is part of her practice. Claire normally replies to messages within 24 hours on weekdays and updates availability twice weekly.
To start, a short online matching questionnaire is completed and a session can be scheduled from there.
What Claire works with
How Claire works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape how people connect now. It helps when anxiety around closeness or fear of abandonment affects current relationships. Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the session. The therapist offers non-judgemental listening and helps people find their own solutions to stress, low mood and identity concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claire will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest which approach or combination might fit best. This is a collaborative decision and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make counselling flexible. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow people to keep momentum between sessions or to choose a quieter, text-based way to reflect and update a therapist.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
