Claire Owers, BACP

Claire Owers is a BACP-registered counsellor and psychotherapist in the United Kingdom with four years of experience supporting people through a wide range of life challenges. She works compassionately and without judgment, offering empathetic and practical support for concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Claire also focuses on specific issues such as attachment and abandonment, neurodiversity-related challenges including autism and Asperger Syndrome, body image, chronic illness and pain, caregiving stress, and dissociation.

Her practice is warm and collaborative, drawing primarily from psychodynamic psychotherapy. This psychodynamic approach helps people explore how past experiences and unconscious patterns influence current feelings, behaviors, and relationships, including the relationship a person has with themselves. Claire also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to address unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and employs solution-focused techniques to help clients set clear, attainable goals. She is trauma-informed and integrates that perspective across her work.

Claire aims to build a trusting therapeutic relationship where clients feel heard, respected, and able to work toward their personal goals. She is registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which is a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each individual’s needs and preferences.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Claire commonly uses psychodynamic psychotherapy to help people explore how past experiences and unconscious patterns influence present emotions, behaviors, and relationships; this approach can be useful for understanding recurring difficulties and improving self-awareness. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. In addition, trauma-focused work informs her practice, offering ways to address the effects of trauma by developing coping strategies and processing distressing experiences in a paced, supportive way.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Claire works collaboratively with clients to determine what will best meet their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they consider which methods feel most helpful and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.

Online therapy with Claire is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These options make it easier to access consistent support from registered professionals and therapists without the need to travel, allowing clients to engage in meaningful work from a place that suits them.