Claire Lewis
Gentle practical support for stress and relationships
About Claire
Claire Lewis offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety and life changes. She works with individuals who are struggling with relationships, family tensions, grief and low self-esteem. Claire presents as approachable and steady, and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
Claire is an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, abbreviated BACP. She has four years of post-qualification experience and has worked in employee assistance settings providing short-term support.
Background and approach
This foundation means she is used to helping people with immediate pressures and practical next steps. For the past three years Claire has supported neurodiverse university students, often over medium to long-term work. She has also worked with people coping with grief including pet loss, and with those managing relationship difficulties, family of origin issues and the stress of caregiving.
Her caseload includes concerns such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and the emotional fallout from separation or divorce. Claire describes her approach as integrative, drawing on a person-centred base alongside psychodynamic, Gestalt, cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused ideas. In practice this means she concentrates on listening, helping clients identify patterns, and trying small, practical steps between sessions.
She aims to work collaboratively so clients set the pace and focus. Sessions are intended to offer a steady, non-judgemental space where people can talk things through and build confidence to manage everyday challenges.
What Claire works with
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches fit into online work
Claire draws on an integrative mix to suit different problems. Person-centred work focuses on listening closely and offering empathy so people feel understood; it helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk. Cognitive-behavioural ideas look at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and often include practical tasks to try between sessions, which can help with anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claire will collaborate with each person to identify what feels most useful based on their goals, life situation and preferences. That collaborative exploration means approaches can shift over time if something else seems a better fit.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions take place. Video calls let people see facial cues and build rapport similar to face-to-face meetings. Phone sessions suit those who prefer not to use video or who have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in during busy days, do brief reviews between sessions, or have a shorter, written-focused check-in when time is limited.
These options let people fit therapy around work, study or family routines while still working with registered or accredited professionals and therapists experienced in a range of evidence-based techniques.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
