Claire Kleynhans
Supportive counselling for anxiety and relationships
About Claire
Claire Kleynhans is a counsellor with eight years of practice in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and she works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. Claire aims to make the first step easier and offers steady support for people who feel lost or overwhelmed.
Her approach is flexible and tailored. She listens first, then helps clients map out practical steps they can try. Sessions often focus on understanding attachment patterns, managing upsetting thoughts and building skills to cope with change.
Background and approach
Claire uses straightforward tools and gentle questioning rather than jargon. Claire also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, grief, body image and identity issues. She offers particular attention to parenting strains, blended family challenges and adoption or foster-care related matters.
Her work includes helping people with ADHD, addictions, compulsive behaviours and anger concerns. In practice she blends client-centred listening with techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches and mindfulness. This combination helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, test new ways of relating and try small experiments between sessions.
Claire pays close attention to how early relationships shape current difficulties and uses that to guide change. Her manner is warm, respectful and non-judgemental. Clients can expect clear, manageable goals and practical strategies alongside space to make sense of painful feelings.
Claire invites people to take one careful step towards a life they can be more at ease in.
What Claire works with
How Claire works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online support
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practise new ways of relating in day-to-day life. Client-centred therapy places the client's experience at the heart of sessions; the therapist listens closely and follows the person's pace to build trust and self-understanding. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful habits and manage symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claire will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit the individual's needs, goals and preferences. That means checking in about what helps, adapting tools when needed, and keeping the plan practical and focused on small, achievable steps.
Online formats offer flexibility and accessibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when a conversation benefits from visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, between-session reflections or when writing feels more natural than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and daily life while keeping the focus on progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
