Counsellor profile
Claire Howdle, BACP
Based in United Kingdom ยท 5 years of experience
Counsellor for stress, relationships and trauma
Continue with ClaireAt a glance
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom (392334)
- Qualifications
- BACP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Languages
- English
- Based in
- United Kingdom
Details come from information Claire supplied to BetterHelp.
- Stress and anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
About Claire
BACP. Five years' experience. Claire Howdle is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions and a range of other issues. She uses an integrative style that draws on cognitive behavioural and mindfulness approaches alongside attachment and existential ideas.
Claire focuses on what a person brings to sessions and on practical ways to manage symptoms between appointments. She talks through coping strategies, communication techniques and approaches to difficult feelings. Sessions are intended to help people handle life changes, manage low mood or anxiety, think about relationships and address behaviour they find unhelpful.
Her background includes five years of clinical experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is shown above as BACP. Claire works from an integrative framework that mixes client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural tools and mindfulness exercises.
In practice she may explore attachment patterns and values-based work from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help someone decide what matters and take practical steps. She also uses reflective conversation to look at long-standing patterns that affect relationships and identity.
People often come for help with parenting stress, body image and eating concerns, anger, intimacy and codependency. Claire also lists experience with cancer, caregiving stress, ageing issues, dissociation and problems linked to abandonment and dependent or avoidant personality features.
To begin, people are asked to use the site's matching process and schedule a first session. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time, and the counsellor conducts work in English.
How Claire uses therapeutic approaches in online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small practical steps towards them while learning simple ways to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, low mood and decisions about relationships. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns; it can be useful for communication problems, intimacy issues and understanding repeated relationship difficulties. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor, using attentive listening and reflection to help someone find their own solutions and feel heard.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss preferences, goals and what feels helpful, and then use methods from these approaches together with cognitive and mindfulness techniques. That way the person and counsellor decide collaboratively on what to try in sessions and between appointments.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Registered or accredited professionals, including counsellors, often find remote sessions useful for ongoing support and practical skill work without requiring travel.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions and related issues including body image and parenting stress.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is integrative, combining client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and elements of attachment and existential thinking.
How much experience does Claire have?
She has five years of counselling experience.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed as BACP and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can I work with her from outside the UK?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start counselling with Claire?
Use the See online counselling options button, complete the short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
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