Claire Laforges, BACP

Claire Laforges is a counsellor with seven years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration and offers practical support for stress, anxiety, relationship strains and jealousy-related worries. She also helps people facing grief, intimacy concerns, addiction issues and challenges linked to neurodiversity and chronic health conditions.

Claire uses a client-centred way of working that centres on the person in the room. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the individual and building skills to manage difficult feelings. She aims to make conversations straightforward and down-to-earth, so people can start making small changes quickly.

In her background she has worked in outreach community settings and has experience offering help online and by phone. She has worked with both children and adults in prior roles and draws on a range of therapeutic ideas to suit different situations. Claire has also completed foundation-level BICA infertility training and practises as a clinical supervisor in the UK.

Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with mindfulness and relationship-focused work. That can mean exploring how past connections shape current trust and closeness, using mindful exercises to reduce reactivity, and applying relationship tools when needed. Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on clear steps people can try between meetings.

People who choose Claire typically want an approachable counsellor who listens without judgement and offers concrete strategies. She aims to respond to messages within 24 hours on weekdays and keeps her availability updated twice weekly.

How key approaches shape online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence trust and closeness now. Online work can use this to help people understand patterns that affect jealousy and intimacy, and to practise new ways of relating.

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens with curiosity and reflects what is heard, helping people make sense of feelings and decide their own next steps.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity. Short mindful exercises can be introduced between sessions to help manage anxiety, anger or intrusive thoughts.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claire will work collaboratively to identify which ideas and tools feel most useful, adapting methods to match a person’s goals and preferences rather than applying a fixed plan.

The biography notes experience offering help online and by phone, but current session formats should be confirmed before booking. Online working can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, enable shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Phone conversations can be helpful when video isn’t practical and require less bandwidth. These practical options can help therapy slot into everyday life while focusing on the relationship and emotional work clients want to do.