Claire Laforges, BACP

Claire Laforges is a counsellor with seven years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, ADHD and body-image or eating difficulties. She also supports those managing caregiving strain, chronic health problems, and wider life changes.

Claire takes a straightforward, client-centred approach. She aims to make sessions a place where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She helps people understand the causes of their distress and develop everyday strategies to cope and move forward.

Her background includes community outreach work and clinical supervision in the UK. She has offered therapy in outreach settings, online and via phone, and has experience working with both children and adults using a range of tools and theories.

Claire draws on attachment-based ideas, mindfulness and relationship-focused approaches when they suit a person’s goals. In practical terms this can mean talking through patterns in relationships, learning grounding and attention skills, or exploring how past attachments affect present behaviour.

She aims to respond to messages within 24 hours on weekdays, and updates her availability twice weekly. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.

How Claire’s approaches translate to online work

Claire draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns shape current behaviour. This approach can help when people struggle with trust, closeness or repeated patterns in partnerships and friendships.

She also uses client-centred work, which focuses on listening and building understanding at the client’s pace. That method is useful for someone wanting a supportive space to talk through thoughts, emotions and everyday habits.

Mindfulness techniques are used alongside these approaches to teach simple attention and grounding skills. These tools can help with anxiety, stress and improving sleep or concentration by turning attention to present-moment experience.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Claire will work collaboratively to decide what fits best based on a person’s needs, goals and preferences. She may combine ideas from different approaches as the work develops.

Session formats offered in her background include online and phone work, but formats on this listing should be confirmed before booking. Many people using remote sessions find them easier to fit around work or family life, helpful for keeping continuity during busy weeks, and useful when quieter surroundings or shorter check-ins are needed.