| Works with: | Individuals |
| Sessions: | Face-to-Face, Online, Telephone |
| Languages: | English |
| Locations: | Clapham |
| Adults: | £85 |
| Private Healthcare: | Aviva, CIGNA |
| Private Health Insurance: | £100 |
Claire Russell
Claire Russell is an integrative counsellor and has a Diploma in Counselling and BACP registration. She is a member of the Complex Trauma Institute. She works in private practice at The Awareness Centre in Clapham.
In a warm and welcoming environment, Claire Russell uses integrative counselling to help you develop your emotional awareness and increase self-understanding and self-acceptance. This will enable you to explore any obstacles that you are facing, allowing your confidence in tackling emotional difficulty to grow. As a counsellor she sees the relationship she builds with her clients as the most intrinsic aspect of her work as this forms the basis for their ability to openly process trauma, understand their life better and make changes if they wish. An integrative approach means that Claire will employ different therapeutic techniques, adopting those that are best suited to you as an individual, as well as the circumstances that have led you to seek therapy. Before training as a counsellor Claire took a degree in Politics and worked for an MP. She then worked in marketing for many years.
Her areas of special interest and experience include: anxiety, depression, panic attacks, confidence and self esteem, stress, trauma, loneliness, bereavement, relationship issues, intimacy issues, divorce, family conflict, infidelity, life transitions, peer relationships, estrangement, abuse and grief, bereavement and loss.
Claire works with anyone who is struggling with life’s challenges. Whatever your reason for seeking therapy, Claire will help you explore any painful experiences and unhealthy or unhelpful behavioural patterns in a non-judgemental and safe space, so that change and growth are facilitated through compassion, empathy and understanding towards others, and more vitally towards yourself.
Claire is a highly experienced and mature therapist. She always asks the right questions in a probing yet empathetic way. Thus enabling her client to resolve their mental health issues.
Claire has been a great counsellor help for me in what has been one of my most challenging years yet. She has a very caring and warm presence, and listens intently. She has helped guide me through my emotions following heartbreak, and I am very grateful for her help in the last few months. The Awareness Centre is also always a friendly and calm environment for therapy.
This has been my first experience of therapy and Claire has really helped me in my journey to better process the personal circumstances I have been going through. This has been through providing a safe space where I feel comfortable to discuss my emotions, as well as suggesting practices which help to manage these. I have found Claire to be extremely professional and good at what she does, and I would highly recommend Claire to anyone else looking to undertake therapy.
