Claire Kelly, BACP

Claire Kelly is a BACP counsellor who combines three years of counselling experience with a longer background in bodywork and holistic therapy. She offers gentle, person-centred support for people facing life changes, stress and deep loss. Claire aims to help clients find clearer direction and a stronger sense of purpose.

She works in a trauma-informed way and supports people through common and unexpected challenges. These include anxiety, grief, chronic illness, parenting strains, and midlife transitions. Claire also addresses concerns such as ADHD, intimacy-related worries, and compassion fatigue.

In sessions she takes a person-centred approach that prioritises the client’s own experience. That means listening closely, reflecting what is said, and helping people access their own inner wisdom. Practical tools drawn from mindfulness and emotionally focused methods are used when helpful.

Claire also draws on Internal Family Systems ideas to look at different parts of a person’s inner life. This can be useful for issues like attachment, abandonment, dissociation, and codependency. She works at a steady pace and helps clients notice patterns that get in the way of feeling more settled.

People often come for help with career uncertainty, body image worries, communication problems, or the emotional work that follows adoption and foster care. Claire accepts international clients and holds her practice within the standards of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.

How Claire’s approaches translate to online counselling

Claire uses person-centred practice to make space for what matters most to each person. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping clients uncover their own answers, which can work well in remote sessions when time is spent on honest conversation and pacing.

She also uses elements of Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which helps people notice and name strong feelings and how they affect relationships and choices. EFT-style work supports people dealing with intimacy, attachment and grief by helping access and process emotions more directly.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Claire will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods as therapy progresses so techniques match the client’s needs rather than following a fixed plan.

The practical benefits of online therapy include easier fitting of sessions into a busy week, the option of shorter check-ins when needed, and lower travel time. Because the biography does not state specific session formats, potential clients should confirm available options before booking. Registered or accredited professionals can offer flexible arrangements that help therapy sit alongside work, family and health demands.