About Claire
Claire Laforges is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She holds BACP registration and has worked across community outreach, online and phone settings. Claire focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief and loss, depression, ADHD, addictions, and issues related to LGBT identity.
Claire uses a client-centred stance in sessions, aiming to listen without judgement and to support people as they make sense of their experiences.
Background and approach
She emphasises practical tools and gentle reflection so clients can better understand the causes of their difficulties. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Her background includes work as a psychosexual and intimate partner therapist and completing foundation-level infertility training with BICA.
She has supported people with body image, chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care issues, and trauma and abuse. Claire also offers clinical supervision in the UK. In practice she helps people address everyday problems like sleep, parenting strain, anger, career stress and low self-esteem, as well as more complex concerns such as bipolar mood issues and co-morbidity.
She draws on attachment-based ideas, mindfulness, and relationship-focused work to tailor support. Claire aims to respond to messages within 24 hours on weekdays and updates her availability twice weekly. To start, people are invited to book a session and begin the process of working toward clearer coping and greater understanding.
What Claire works with
Everything Claire lists, in their own terms. LGBT is the reason Claire is listed here; the rest shows what else Claire works with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Claire lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches shape online counselling
Claire often draws on attachment-based ideas, which focus on how early relationships affect current patterns. This approach helps people understand closeness, trust and repeat patterns in relationships and is useful for intimacy and attachment issues.She also uses a client-centred way of working, which means sessions are led by the person’s concerns. The counsellor listens, reflects and offers practical tools so people can make changes at their own pace. This style is helpful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.
Mindfulness-based work is another element she brings in. That involves simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm, often useful for stress, sleep problems and anger.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will help you decide what fits best, based on your situation, goals and preferences. Sessions are collaborative and can be adjusted as you learn what helps.
The biography notes experience with online and phone contact, but readers should confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can cut travel time, fit around busy days and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Phone contact can be useful when video is impractical or bandwidth is limited, while different formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside everyday life.
Questions people ask about Claire
What concerns does Claire work with?
Claire supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, ADHD, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and other life changes.
How does she approach therapy?
Her style is client-centred and collaborative, using listening, practical tools and reflection to help people understand their difficulties and try new ways of coping.
What is her background and experience?
She has seven years of professional experience, has worked in outreach community settings, online and via phone, and has roles as a psychosexual and intimate partner therapist and as a clinical supervisor.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
The biography mentions prior work online and via phone; please confirm current session options before booking to ensure they meet your needs.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time according to the therapist's availability.
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