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.

​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.

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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.

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​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).

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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 coning months and work alongside new collaborations.

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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.

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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.

                       We can become 'unstuck' together.                                                                                   

 #willsway