Claudia Castiglione
Warm trauma-informed psychodynamic counsellor
About Claudia
Claudia Castiglione is a UK-based counsellor who draws on psychodynamic ideas, trauma-focused work and Internal Family Systems to help people untangle difficult patterns. She brings four years of professional experience and a BACP registration to her practice. Claudia keeps sessions direct and compassionate and focuses on practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
Many people come for help with relationships, intimacy concerns, grief, or the effects of past abuse.
Background and approach
Claudia also supports people dealing with depression, anxiety, stress, addictions and problems with self-esteem. She works with a broad range of life challenges such as career worries, parenting strain, eating and body-image issues, and coping with big life changes. Her approach starts by listening to each person’s story and noticing the patterns that keep causing pain.
She uses trauma-focused methods when past events continue to affect daily life, and Internal Family Systems to map the different parts of someone’s inner world. Psychodynamic ideas help link present difficulties to long-standing feelings and relationships. Sessions aim to be practical.
Claudia helps people name what is happening, try small changes, and build on what already works for them. Over time the goal is clearer relationships with oneself and others, improved emotional balance, and ways to manage triggers more effectively. Claudia offers appointments online across the United Kingdom and to international clients in English.
She encourages prospective clients to take the first step and explore whether her style fits their needs.
What Claudia works with
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Sessions & fees
How psychodynamic and trauma-focused work translate to online therapy
Psychodynamic work looks at patterns between feelings, memories and relationships to make sense of current struggles. Online sessions allow time to talk through these patterns and notice how they show up in daily life, helping with issues like low mood, relationship strain and long-standing emotional difficulties.Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on reducing the hold of past painful experiences and on building skills to manage triggers and distress. In an online setting this can be paced to suit the person, with phone or video sessions used for deeper work and messaging for short check-ins between meetings.
Internal Family Systems invites people to notice different parts within themselves - the fearful part, the critical part, or the protective part - and to help those parts relate differently. This approach can be practised through conversation in video or phone sessions, and reinforced with written or chat-based exercises.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to clarify goals, test what helps, and adapt methods to match needs and preferences. Practical formats help too - video calls let people see facial cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- 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)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
