Claire Smith

Claire Smith offers support for people facing anger alongside a wide range of concerns. She helps with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, grief and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with eating concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem problems, bipolar-related challenges, and coping with life changes. Claire holds BACP accreditation, which she lists as her professional credential.

Claire draws on several practical therapy styles to shape sessions around each person. She uses clear, goal-focused tools from cognitive behavioural approaches and skills from dialectical behaviour work to help manage intense feelings. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to aid people in living by their values, and attachment-based thinking to understand relationship patterns.

Her background includes work within the NHS NELFT children’s crisis unit, where she supported people with severe mental health needs and high-risk presentations. That experience informs how she plans safety and practical steps in sessions. She also has experience working with neurodiversity, including ADHD and autism.

Sessions are collaborative and respectful. Claire aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s needs. She encourages small, manageable steps and practical strategies that fit everyday life.

Claire recognises that beginning therapy can be difficult and often brave. She invites people to start with a short questionnaire and schedule a session so they can see if the approach suits them.

How Claire uses therapeutic approaches online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It supports people to clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. These tools are often used for anxiety, low mood and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people build different ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adapt as they go, so therapy fits the person's needs rather than forcing a single style.

The source biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. In general, online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and reduce travel time. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when that suits a day at work, or for audio-only meetings when bandwidth is limited or being on camera is not wanted. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and worksheets for remote sessions so practical skill-building continues outside appointments.