Claire Laforges, BACP

Claire Laforges offers support for a wide range of difficulties including stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She helps people dealing with grief, intimacy and sexual difficulties, addiction, ADHD and work-related strain. Claire also works with issues around self-esteem, anger, sleep and eating problems and the emotional impact of long-term illness or caregiving.

Claire has seven years of professional experience and holds BACP registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has worked in community outreach settings and with clients by phone and online. This mix of settings has shaped a practical, down-to-earth style that focuses on what helps day to day.

Her approach is collaborative and person-centred. Sessions aim to help people understand patterns in their relationships and feelings. Claire uses tools from attachment-based work and relationship-focused methods to look at how people connect and communicate.

She also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support change and coping with difficult emotions. Where appropriate, Claire will use elements of relationship-focused methods to address intimacy and partnership challenges. Her practice emphasises straightforward conversation, practical strategies and step-by-step progress.

To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. Sessions are then scheduled according to the therapist’s availability and run on a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. Claire aims to respond to weekday messages within 24 hours and updates availability twice weekly.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape how people relate now. It helps when patterns of trust, closeness or avoidance cause stress in relationships or within yourself. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. It aims to give space for someone to find their own solutions and build self-awareness and confidence.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to your needs, goals and preferences. That means trying approaches and checking what helps most, then adjusting the work together.

This biography notes experience with online and phone work but does not list specific session formats here. Before booking, confirm which session types are currently offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Phone sessions can be useful when video would be difficult, and online meetings can allow the same conversational and mindfulness exercises used in person. Registered or accredited professionals often adapt tools so therapy can be practical and workable within a person’s routine.