Claudia Brooker

• CBT approaches
• Emotionally-focused work
• Client-centred therapy

About Claudia

Claudia Brooker works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and a wide range of emotional and relationship concerns. She sees individuals who are coping with grief, depression, bipolar experience, intimacy issues, parenting pressures, work stress and identity matters, and she works in English and French. Claudia is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has six years' experience.

Claudia uses several approaches to counselling and psychotherapy and adapts them to what a person needs in the moment. She draws on client-centred work to focus on what the person brings, and cognitive behavioural ideas to look at practical patterns of thinking and behaviour. She also uses emotionally-focused and existential ideas when exploring relationships, meaning and personal values.

Her background includes work with people affected by attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care, autism and neurodiversity, and care-related stress. She has clinical experience with issues linked to sexual expression and alternative sex cultures, including BDSM and kink, as well as codependency and commitment concerns.

Claudia has worked in multicultural settings and identifies as a third-culture individual, which she says gives her experience of different cultural and faith backgrounds. She also has experience supporting people from sexual minority communities and those facing compassion fatigue or burnout.

To begin, people are asked to use the site matching steps to connect and schedule a first session. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and cost varies with location.

How Claudia’s approaches work in remote sessions

Claudia uses client-centred therapy to focus on what the person brings and their immediate concerns; this approach is about listening, reflecting and helping the person make sense of their experience. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and supports practical changes for anxiety, stress and mood problems. Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) concentrates on feelings and relationship patterns and can help with intimacy and communication issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claudia will discuss different ways of working and agree together what to try based on the person’s needs, goals and preferences. The plan can change as sessions progress to reflect what is most helpful.

Practical benefits of having sessions remotely include fitting counselling into a busy day and reducing travel time. Remote sessions can make it easier to attend during a lunch break or between commitments, and can allow shorter check-ins when that suits the person. The original biography does not list specific session formats here, so please confirm the available session formats before booking to see what best fits your routine and technical setup.

Topics Claudia lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Addictions
• LGBT
• Relationship issues
• Depression
• Family conflicts
• Trauma and abuse
• Grief
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Self-esteem
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Coping with life changes
• Coaching
• Compassion fatigue
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Adoption and foster care
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
• Dependent personality
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Fatherhood issues
• Fertility issues
• Forgiveness
• Guilt and shame
• Hoarding
• Immigration issues
• Impulsivity
• Infidelity
• Intellectual disability
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Midlife crisis
• Veteran and armed forces issues
• Money and financial issues
• Mood disorders
• Multicultural concerns
• Narcissism
• Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Personality disorders
• Phobias
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Process addictions
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Somatization
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Existential Therapy
• Jungian Therapy
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy
• Internal Family Systems

Questions about Claudia

Does she work with anxiety or panic?

Yes. She helps people manage anxiety, stress and panic using cognitive behavioural techniques alongside other approaches.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

Claudia combines client-centred work with CBT, emotionally-focused and existential approaches to address feelings, relationships and practical thinking patterns.

How much experience does she have?

She has six years' experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Where does she practise?

She works from the United Kingdom and lists BACP as her professional affiliation.

Can I have sessions in another language?

Sessions are offered in English and French.

What session formats are available?

The original biography does not specify formats here; please confirm current session options with the service before booking.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I start sessions?

Use the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.