Claudia Brooker
Practical, person-focused psychotherapy
About Claudia
Claudia Brooker works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction and life changes. She offers a calm, conversational style and aims to help people make practical steps forward. Claudia speaks English and French and practises from the United Kingdom.
Claudia uses straightforward, person-focused methods to help people tackle problems. Sessions look at thoughts, emotions and behaviour to find patterns that keep difficulties running. She also pays attention to deeper personal meaning and life purpose when that feels helpful.
Background and approach
Her training is recorded with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Claudia has six years of clinical experience supporting people through depression, trauma, grief and compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem and bipolar-related issues.
Claudia has additional focus areas including ADHD, attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care topics, autism and aspects of sexual expression such as BDSM and kink. She helps people facing caregiving stress, codependency, communication and commitment issues. Therapy sessions are adapted to each person.
Some people prefer to talk through practical strategies and coping tools. Others want to explore emotions and personal meaning over time. Claudia aims to find the approach that best matches a person’s needs and goals.
To begin, a simple matching process connects someone to the service, then sessions are scheduled according to therapist availability. Costs vary by location and the service uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Claudia often blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy. Client-centred work focuses on listening and helping a person find their own pace and direction, while cognitive behavioural therapy looks at thought patterns and practical strategies to reduce distress. Emotionally-focused therapy is another tool she may use for people who want to look at attachment and emotional bonds in their relationships; it helps clarify feelings and improve emotional connection.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Claudia will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether short-term strategies or deeper, exploratory work is the best fit and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling flexible. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversational feel, phone sessions can suit someone with limited bandwidth, chat or text work well for brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and busy days while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, French
