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Willsway Counselling Services
WELCOMES YOU

Counselling    Wellness & Wellbeing    Connection 

'Willingness is the Way towards change.' ~ CW

Hey, I'm Claire ~ it's so good to see you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to my website, I'm super glad to have you here.

I am a Person-Centred therapist registered with the BACP. I adhere to their ethical framework in all my clinical work, making sure clients receive the highest form of confidentiality, compassion and safety. I attend regular clinical supervision with a qualified supervisor and practitioner to ensure my business is fit to practice.

I pride myself in my duty of care towards all clients in providing a unique and individual service that best meets your needs.

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Work with me;

Face-to-Face ~ Online ~ Telephone ~ Workshops

My approach is compassionate, kind, warm and friendly. I truly believe in the power of the therapeutic relationship and the strong, safe, secure and nurturing bond that can be built throughout the therapeutic work.

In my own experience as both client and counsellor this trusting confidential connection enhanced my experience of therapy, allowing me to get to a place of self-acceptance, sustainable change, willingness & forward movement. ​I believe that when we are met with compassion and empathy for where we find ourselves in the moment, and accepted for the perfectly imperfect person we are a wonderful process of willingness opens up.​ If you find yourself in a place of struggle, illness, discomfort, uncertainty feeling lost, stuck or alone, limiting beliefs preventing you from living a fulfilling life, I can help - reach out TODAY in the BOOK HERE secition.

 My Services

Why Wills Wellness & Wellbeing?

This idea came about when I myself suffered a mental breakdown and burnout in 2014 and lost my life as I knew it. Prior to this I had been a proactive person, I was able to be rational, logical and problem solve to find positive forward focused solutions. As I began to burnout these transferable skills I'd relied on all my life didn't seem to help me in my emotional and mental battle, it was like nothing I had ever experienced.

In the midst of my struggle I found that not all 'help' is 'helpful' there is no one size fits all approach.

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Finding the right personal therapist for me was the catalyst to REAL change, in finding my truth connecting to what served me and my needs, to be able to be authentic and focus on wholehearted living.Since working on my own recovery and healing journey (which is a daily commitment) I am dedicated to creating a platform and business where we can connect in championing one another to GROW.I passionately believe in therapy as I have seen first hand the difference being seen, heard and felt can do, not only from a counsellor perspective but also as a counsellor, I've at both sides of the sofa. I believe this is what gives me a unique edge in supporting you. I firmly believe knowledge is power, in understanding ourselves and our history we are able to shift from a place of 'whats wrong with me?' to a place of 'what happened to me' this subtle yet transformative mindset shift is why Wills Counselling, Wellness and Wellbeing Services is here!

Counselling

I offer 1:1 therapy on a range of difficulties, struggles or issues you may find yourself facing in your life right now. My approach is underpinned by the humanistic modality of Person-Centred therapy, putting you at the centre of our work together, focusing on meeting your needs session to session.

I truly believe counselling changes lives, in creating a safe, nurturing, supportive space, here you can;

 Build your Brave, Cultivate your Courage, Show your Strength & Rely on your Resilience.

You will be empowered, through a non-directive approach to become self-determining to align yourself to the life you desire reclaiming your autonomy & agency within your life, enabling you to move forward.

Through a non-judgemental & compassionate approach I will support you in making sustainable changes that will allow you to recognise and explore disrupting patterns, conditioning and habits that may be holding you back, providing you with useable tools and coping techniques to form healthy replacements to drive you forward to where you want to be. These healthier choices will allow you to fulfil your true potential in life. Life doesn't have to be this hard, when we share in safe environments, we heal!

Wellness & Wellbeing

I am passionate about valuing individuals as a whole-being.  I believe we cannot heal our Mental Health without considering our physical, social, emotional, vocational, environmental health to.

Wellness includes forming & practicing healthy habits to better balance our life.

Wellbeing is feeling good within ourselves meeting our needs.

A holistic approach looks at;

Mind - Body - Heart - Soul

In applying self-care to all aspects of our lifestyle and self-care we can lead a 

fully functional wholehearted life, driven by authenticity

I have a range of ways you can engage with me.

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Journaling Workshop

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Rest, Reset and Relax

Coming Soon ......

I am working on collaborations to provide courses focusing on; Self-Care, Self-Soothing / Coping Techniques, Boundaries, Positive Self-Talk, Resilience, Conditioning / Limiting belief systems and Building Firm Foundations, Managing Burnout at work.

Available to adults 18+ for individual, group & business bookings.

 

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   Mind       Body        Heart         Soul  

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Connection

As human's we need connection, life can be tough at times, I understand the 'pull' towards isolation when things get hard. Believe me I get it, I know it, I live it. I also know while isolation may protect us from further pain, it also prevents us from supportive connections. Self-isolation allows our critical internal chatter to become loud and separates us from the external compassion of others that we all crave and need in our life.

This is why it is so important to;

 Connect - Share - Grow

Let's ALL support one another along our healing & recovery journeys. Follow my weekly blog to stay connected.

Continue on Continuing, I got you, you got me, we got this - stronger together always! #willsway

Coming Soon  Summer 2026

You can also subscribe to my members area where you will receive a monthly support email, additional resources, discount codes for courses and workshops & online members calls.

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'CLAIREY'S CUPPA CLUB'

Online  group is a low cost monthly way we can connect for £2 per session.

'GRIEVE WITH ME'

Online  group is a low cost monthly way we can connect for £2 per session.

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Come along for a chat & connection, share, offload, learn, grow.

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A little about me .......

 Hi I'm Claire your Person-Centred Counsellor I'm super excited to have you here.

I know first hand how difficult it is to reach out for help, so first of all well done, you made it here and that is enough for now. Please take your time to look at my website and maybe you'll find some connection or relatability in what I have to share and the services I have to offer.

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

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​A little bit about me; I started my working career as a Store Manager in a retail fashion business for 10yrs, here I learnt valuable skills in communication, managing people, collaboration and business operations. I then moved on to progress this further becoming an Area Trainer delivering NVQ and B-Tech qualifications in Retail, customer service, team leading, management and business admin alongside delivering Functional Skills qualifications in Maths, English and ICT across the North East and Teesside.​I found on my visits to local businesses alongside being an assessor learners would confide in me, opening up in a way they didn't feel they could to their colleagues or managers. This began the spark of realising the benefit 1:1 support, active listening and walking alongside someone has.​​

 

I'm a HUGE fan of Theatre, I am a qualified Dance Teacher and have previously been involved in Musical Theatre and Dance productions. I believe live performance is life and awakens the parts of us that otherwise may go unseen. For me there is no feeling like being in a theatre. This is a huge passion of mine. I look forward to adding some mindful movement programs soon ....​

 

In 2014 my life as I knew it came to a halt when I began to have nightmares, insomnia and panic attacks. In truth I didn't know what was happening to me as Mental Health was not something that was on my radar. Truth be told I was having a burnout through overworking, lack of boundaries, people pleasing, perfectionism, previous conditioning and a total lack of self-regard or self-care. What followed were 9years in and out of MH services, on various medications, treatments, totally isolated from life, drowning in the shame, guilt and pressure of losing myself.

 

What finally supported me was finding my personal therapist through the work I have completed and continue to complete with her I have been able to explore myself, uncovering historic trauma, rigid conditioning, a plethora of critical rules and regulations and a lack of self acceptance. Through the therapeutic relationship and in exploring and gaining the knowledge and understanding of myself I have now been able to challenge my limiting beliefs, conditioning and begun to align with my authentic truth, not to criticise myself but instead to compassionately & curiously explore my life from my own perspective.

 

This has allowed me hope and willingness to move toward change. It's in change we begin to live life as a fully functional wholehearted autonomous adult. ​I hold the strong belief that people are perfectly imperfect, I've come to learn we are all fragmented but that our parts and our conflicting thoughts, feelings, emotions and behaviours can live adjacently alongside one another, life isn't either or - life is ALL (often all at once in a wave of overwhelm).

 

Nowadays alongside my thriving Private Practice with 1:1 clients, I'm also branching out into delivering workshops and courses which is a pure joy for me to connect with others and just thrive in what always turns into the most rich, warm, nourishing environment. I'm excited to extend my offerings over the coming months and work alongside new collaborations.

 

​You'll find me out in mother nature these days with my dog Oakley Bear, I have a new found gratitude for Mother Nature in all her glory and wonder, something higher than myself filled with opportunity, change, mystery and adventure.​If you can relate its okay, we can all become stuck, unhappy, poorly, lost, unable to live a fulfilling life. That’s where I come in. I will bring all I've learnt from my own therapeutic journey of recovery alongside my experience,  qualifications and training to support you, empathically alongside in working towards meeting you in your therapeutic needs, goals and aspirations.

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Willsway Counselling Services 

in collaboration with

Wills Wellness & Wellbeing Academy

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Room 5, Lexington Building, Longbeck Industrial Estate, Marske-by-the-Sea, TS11 6HB

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