Claire Laforges
Support for stress, relationships and intimacy
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About Claire
Claire Laforges offers help for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief and loss, ADHD, addictions and body image. She supports people dealing with career strain, parenting pressures, sleep and eating problems, compassion fatigue and major life changes.
Claire uses straightforward language and practical tools in sessions so people can feel understood and take small steps forward. Claire holds BACP accreditation and brings seven years of professional experience in the UK.
Background and approach
She has worked in outreach community settings and provides online and phone support. She also has a background in psychosexual and intimate partner work, and has completed foundation-level BICA infertility training. Her approach is client-centred and attachment-informed.
That means conversations follow each person’s pace and priorities, while looking at how relationships and early experiences shape current patterns. She also uses evidence-informed relationship work, including elements of the Gottman and Imago methods, alongside mindfulness and motivational techniques. In sessions Claire aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through.
She focuses on helping people understand what keeps problems going and on building small, achievable changes. Messages are usually answered within 24 hours on weekdays and her availability is updated twice weekly. To start, people are invited to use the site's Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
Time together is arranged according to the therapist’s schedule, with a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 7
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 379909
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Gottman Method
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Claire's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Claire works with
Everything Claire lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Claire lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Claire works online
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Claire will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. That means talking through what feels useful and adjusting techniques as therapy progresses.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. The original biography mentions online and phone work, so please confirm the current session options before booking. Working online still allows practical exercises, mindfulness practices and relationship tasks to be set between sessions and reviewed together.
Questions and answers
What kinds of problems can Claire help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, ADHD, addictions and a wide range of other concerns listed on her profile.
How would she approach therapy?
Her style is client-centred and attachment-informed, with practical techniques from mindfulness and relationship work to help people make gradual changes.
What is her professional background?
Claire has seven years of professional experience working in UK outreach community settings and online, and has provided psychosexual and intimate partner support.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions available in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time; cost varies with location and therapist availability.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Use the Start Therapy button, fill in the short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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