Claire Owers , BACP

Claire Owers is a counsellor and psychotherapist with four years of experience working with adults in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and she offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or depression. Claire listens without judgement and aims to create a warm, respectful space for honest conversation.

Her work often focuses on relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also supports people facing challenges linked to neurodiversity, body image, chronic illness and caregiving strain. Claire helps people who feel stuck take small, practical steps towards change.

Claire mainly draws on psychodynamic therapy to help people understand how past patterns shape present feelings and behaviour. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused ideas to set clear, achievable goals. Trauma-focused methods can be brought in when past harm affects day-to-day life.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit the individual. Claire aims to build trust so people can talk openly about difficult memories, relationship patterns and losses. She encourages practical strategies alongside deeper reflection to support lasting shifts.

People looking for straightforward, compassionate help with anxiety, relationship strain, grief or the effects of trauma may find her approach supportive. Claire explains options clearly and works with each person to decide which methods make sense for their situation.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Claire combines psychodynamic therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy in ways that suit each person. Psychodynamic work helps people look at how early experiences and relationship patterns affect current feelings and actions, so they can understand recurring difficulties. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different ways of responding, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Claire will talk with each person about their goals, history and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. She adapts the plan over time so the work stays relevant to what the person wants to change.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation from wherever they are, phone sessions can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, health needs or caregiving responsibilities.