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Claire Smith, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 4 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseDepression
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Claire Smith helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting pressures and work-related burnout. Claire uses clear, practical conversations to make space for what matters most to each person.
Claire has four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds a BACP credential with experience from NHS work. She has supported people who have faced severe mental health crises and worked alongside high-risk situations in a children's crisis unit.
Background and approach
That background shapes a calm, steady approach to tense moments. Sessions focus on what the client needs right now. Claire draws on several methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts, and acceptance strategies to help people live alongside difficult feelings.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Her practice includes work with neurodiversity - for example ADHD and autism - and with people managing eating concerns, bipolar mood challenges, dissociation and codependency issues. She aims to explain therapy in everyday language and to adapt conversations for each person's style and pace.
Claire encourages practical steps alongside emotional exploration. That can mean short skills practice, clearer communication plans for family or parenting situations, or coaching-style goal setting for career and life changes. She aims to make the process manageable for someone taking the first step.
Approaches you might use in online sessions
Claire uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, mood and eating concerns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and learn ways to live with difficult feelings rather than fight them. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help with intimacy, communication and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person's needs. She aims to be collaborative, checking in about what helps and adapting the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video lets you see facial cues and do longer sessions. Phone may suit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth moments. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter updates, written reflections or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it possible to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
Contacting Claire
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