Clare Bridgman
Compassionate integrative counselling for everyday struggles
About Clare
Clare Bridgman is an integrative counsellor with four years of clinical experience. She works with adults on common struggles such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and addiction. Clare aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what feels difficult right now.
Clare helps people unpack worries about relationships, communication problems and infidelity. She supports those coping with divorce or separation, blended family tensions, and the loneliness that can follow big life changes.
Background and approach
Clare also works with issues around body image, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness or loss of purpose. Her practice addresses attachment and abandonment concerns and the fallout from drug and alcohol addiction. Clare uses an integrative approach, drawing on evidence-based therapeutic techniques suited to each person.
Sessions focus on practical steps and gentle reflection rather than jargon. Conversations are paced to individual needs. Clare aims to balance emotional support with strategies you can try between sessions.
She encourages people to notice small changes and build on them over time. Clare is registered with NCPS, which appears as her listed credential. She works from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English.
To begin, clients follow a simple online matching and scheduling process through the site.
What Clare works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Clare practises an integrative approach that uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques. One common approach she draws on focuses on understanding attachment and abandonment issues by looking at patterns in close relationships and how they developed. This helps when trust, closeness or repeated arguments are causing distress.Another approach she may use looks at behaviour and coping strategies around anxiety and addiction. That work aims to identify unhelpful patterns and build practical, small steps that reduce urges or overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Clare will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible across different formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies and people who prefer written reflection. These options aim to make sessions easier to fit into busy lives.
| 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
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
