Clare Payne
Compassionate, person-centred support for life challenges
About Clare
Clare Payne offers a calm, straightforward approach for people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem and other life challenges. She meets each person where they are and focuses on small, practical steps that feel manageable. Clare is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings four years of experience to her practice.
Clare uses a person-centred style to shape sessions around what matters most to the client on the day.
Background and approach
That means clients lead the pace and topics while she listens and reflects back what’s helpful. Over time Clare may introduce techniques from other approaches to support change and clearer thinking. Her work often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live in line with their values despite difficult thoughts or feelings.
She also uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at relationship patterns and how they formed. Motivational Interviewing and psychodynamic thinking can be brought in when they suit a person’s goals. Sessions are 45 minutes long and the first meetings focus on what brought someone to therapy and what they hope to change.
Clare describes this period as a time to clarify goals and to check whether the working relationship feels right. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Clare works from the United Kingdom and carries out sessions in English only.
What Clare works with
How Clare works
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Sessions & fees
How Clare’s approaches translate to online therapy
Clare commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and to shape actions around what matters most. This approach often helps with anxiety, low mood and issues about meaning and values.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and connections. This work can help people understand recurring relationship difficulties and build different ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is usually a shared process. Clare will listen to a person’s goals and preferences and suggest which methods may suit those aims. She reviews progress together and adapts the work as needed so therapy stays relevant to the client’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to arrange sessions around work, family and other commitments, and let people choose how they feel most comfortable engaging.
| 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
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
