Claire Kleynhans, BACP
8 years in practice
Claire Kleynhans is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of professional experience.
License and registration
- BACP
- 375540 · expires July 2026
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Claire
Claire Kleynhans is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of professional experience. She holds BACP registration, which she uses as a foundation for practical, person-focused work. Claire writes in plain terms and aims to make the first step easier for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Claire welcomes conversations about anxiety, depression and stress. She also helps people dealing with trauma, attachment wounds, relationship difficulties and issues around identity or purpose.
Background and approach
Her experience includes support for eating concerns, addiction, ADHD and grief among other challenges. In sessions Claire takes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach. She listens first and then helps people notice patterns that cause pain.
Together they try different ways of responding so daily life feels more manageable. Claire draws on a mix of methods to suit each person. She uses Existential therapy to look at meaning and choices, Attachment-Based ideas to understand close relationships, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Mindfulness and client-centred ways of working also appear in her practice when they fit. People who come to Claire often want more clarity about themselves and their relationships. She focuses on practical steps and small experiments between sessions.
Her aim is to help people reconnect with their values and find a way forward they can live with.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Claire lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Claire names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Claire's approaches work online
Claire uses Existential therapy to help people examine meaning, choices and purpose in their lives. This approach is useful when someone feels directionless or wants to make significant life changes.She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This can help when trust, closeness or repeated conflict are causing distress. Claire uses Client-Centred Therapy to keep sessions warm and focused on each person's perspective, helping people feel heard and understood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That choice is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy with Claire can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into busy days or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life and to keep continuity across events and moves.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Claire help with?
Claire works with many concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, addictions and body image. She also supports people facing parenting strain, career changes and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps people notice behaviours and thoughts that get in the way and tries practical steps to improve daily life.
What is Claire's background and experience?
Claire has eight years of professional experience as an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist. She combines several approaches to fit each person's needs.
Where is Claire based and what credential does she hold?
She is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration as listed in her profile.
Which languages and countries are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Claire offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions operate via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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