Counsellor profile
Claire Cowper, BACP
Counsellor - Stress and relationships
See online counselling options- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
About Claire
Counsellor Claire Cowper is a BACP-registered practitioner with four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, and supports people coping with grief and depression.
Claire uses a mix of client-centred ways of working and evidence-informed methods to help people make sense of what they are living through. Sessions focus on listening, reflecting and helping people identify small, practical steps they can try between meetings.
She also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. That approach is used to help with low mood, worry and repetitive thought cycles. Claire combines this with psychodynamic thinking to look at how past experiences can affect present relationships and patterns.
Internal Family Systems ideas are part of her practice too, helping people notice different parts of themselves and the roles those parts play. This can be useful when people feel pulled between conflicting wishes or strong emotions.
Claire aims to work collaboratively on the areas that matter most to each person. She offers straightforward, conversational sessions that try to make complex feelings easier to name. To see how her way of working might suit you, follow the online counselling options and complete the brief matching questionnaire before booking.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. If you need to confirm session formats or other practical details, please check the listing before arranging a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Claire uses client-centred work to focus on each person’s experience. That approach involves listening without judgement and helping someone decide the pace and direction of sessions. It is often used when people need a clear place to start or want space to talk through current feelings.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT tends to be practical and can help with anxiety, worry and low mood by testing out different ways of thinking and behaving.
Choosing an approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss goals, personal preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together the pair will decide which methods to try and review how they are working over time.
Practical benefits of working online include fitting sessions around work or caring responsibilities and avoiding travel time. The exact session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm the current options before booking. Online sessions make it easier to maintain regular meetings and to try techniques between sessions without rearranging the rest of your day.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, grief and depression, plus related issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and caregiver stress.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses client-centred practice alongside cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic approaches, and draws on Internal Family Systems to help people understand different parts of themselves.
How much experience does she have?
Claire has four years of professional counselling experience in the United Kingdom.
Which professional body is she registered with?
She is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients; work is offered within the United Kingdom.
How are sessions paid for?
Sessions use a subscription model and this can be cancelled at any time; fees vary with location.
What do I need to do to begin?
Select the See online counselling options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A membership or registration can be checked on the professional body's own register.
Online counselling is not emergency care. In an emergency call 999, or see the help numbers.