Claire Howdle , BACP

Claire Howdle is an individual and family therapist based in the United Kingdom with over five years of clinical experience. She works with a broad range of concerns, including addiction, phobias, depression, anxiety, identity challenges, relationship difficulties, childhood abuse recovery, domestic and emotional abuse recovery, religious crisis, PTSD, and trauma.

Her approach is integrative, blending psychodynamic ideas, humanistic principles, cognitive-behavioural techniques and mindfulness practices to meet each person’s unique needs. Therapy is shaped to the individual rather than following a one-size-fits-all model, allowing interventions to be selected and adapted according to presenting difficulties and personal goals.

Claire values working with people from diverse backgrounds and aims to offer a warm, safe, non-judgemental and non-discriminatory space where individuals and families can work toward improved wellbeing and clearer relationships. She focuses on supporting and empowering people as they explore change, process painful experiences and build practical strategies for everyday life.

Claire holds the BACP credential - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which is a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Claire draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work in a practical, person-centred way. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values, accept difficult emotions and take committed action toward meaningful goals - it can be useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relational patterns shape emotional needs and responses, and it is often helpful for relationship difficulties, attachment issues and recovery from relational trauma. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers structured strategies to reduce symptoms and develop new coping skills, commonly used for anxiety, depression and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Claire works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to identify methods that best match a person’s needs, goals and preferences, adapting techniques over time as progress unfolds.

Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offer flexibility for people juggling work, family or mobility limitations. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit therapy into busy lives and access support from where a person is most comfortable.