Claire Laforges, BACP
Claire Laforges helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and intimacy-related concerns.
- Stress & Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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About Claire
Claire Laforges helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and intimacy-related concerns. She works with sexual health and addiction issues, neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and ADHD, and mood conditions including depression and bipolar. Claire practises in the United Kingdom and offers support for a wide range of life changes and caregiving stresses.
Claire holds BACP accreditation, which means she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
She has seven years of professional experience and has provided counselling in community outreach settings, online and by phone. Her background also includes psychosexual and intimate partner work and foundation-level training in infertility-related care. Her style is practical and person-focused.
She aims to create a non-judgemental space where people can speak openly about thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on building understanding of what drives symptoms and on discovering strategies a person can use day to day. Claire draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working alongside relationship approaches such as the Gottman Method and Imago Relationship Therapy.
She also uses mindfulness and motivational techniques to help people manage distress and make decisions. She can support people coping with complex issues like trauma, bereavement, chronic illness, body image and codependency. Messages are usually answered within 24 hours on weekdays, and availability is updated twice weekly.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled from there.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 379909 | June 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
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.
Online support
These approaches are used collaboratively. The therapist and client discuss goals, try methods in session and agree what feels most helpful. Finding the right approach is part of the work and Claire will adapt methods to a person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. This range helps people fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel commitments while keeping continuity of care.
Frequently asked
What concerns does Claire help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar and coping with life changes, plus relationship and intimacy-related issues.
What is Claire's approach in sessions?
Her approach is person-focused and practical, using attachment-based and client-centred work alongside relationship methods and mindfulness to help people understand and manage difficulties.
What experience does Claire have?
Claire has seven years of professional experience, including community outreach work, online and phone counselling, and roles in psychosexual and intimate partner support.
Where is Claire based and what are her credentials?
She practises in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation with seven years of experience.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payments handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start working with Claire?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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