About Claire
Claire Smith is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low mood and bereavement. She supports those facing relationship and family difficulties, as well as people affected by trauma and abuse. Claire also works with issues such as anger, self-esteem, parenting strain, eating concerns, and career-related stress.
She brings four years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Background and approach
Her background includes work in a children’s crisis unit within the NHS NELFT trust, where she saw complex and high-risk presentations. That experience shaped her calm, practical style. Claire uses a blend of approaches focused on what happens in the body and in everyday life.
She draws on Somatic methods to help people notice physical responses, and uses cognitive and acceptance-based tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and pace. She aims for a respectful, compassionate space where conversation and practical exercises sit side by side.
Claire works with neurodiversity, including clients with ADHD and autism, and has experience with OCD. She explains methods clearly and adapts techniques for each person. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Claire encourages people to begin at a pace that feels safe.
She will listen, help set goals, and agree a plan that fits each person’s life and challenges.
Approaches that work online and in the body
Claire combines somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based ideas to help people manage difficult feelings. Somatic work focuses on noticing physical responses - for example tightness, breath changes or tension - and uses gentle exercises to bring relief and increase body awareness. ACT helps people accept uncomfortable feelings while taking steps that matter to them, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and big life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people find new ways of connecting and relating.Finding the right approach is part of the journey. Claire works collaboratively to see what feels most helpful for each person, matching methods to needs, goals and day-to-day life. She explains options clearly and adjusts the plan as things change so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and other commitments and let people use the medium they find most comfortable. The therapist and client can try different formats and choose what supports progress and day-to-day access to care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English