
Claire Anderson
Registered Member MBACP
Contact information
- Phone number
- 07947710173
- Website
- https://www.claireandersoncounselling.com/
Therapist - London
Features
- Flexible hours available
About me and my therapy practice
Perhaps you are looking to come to therapy at a time of crisis, or you may have been feeling for some time that things don't seem right, but you can't make sense of what it is that is stopping you from feeling happy and fulfilled? I believe that how we experience the world and other people can be shaped by our earlier experiences, often those we had in childhood. How family members responded to our distress, anger, confusion, joy and love might determine how, as adults, we respond to others, and how puzzled we can be by how others treat us.
This in turn might lead us to develop strategies to cope with distress and other difficulties. These become ingrained, often unconscious, patterns of being. We can operate day to day without being aware of them. They contribute, for example, to our choice of partners and friends, our (sometimes unhelpful, even destructive) behaviours and ways of managing our feelings.
By working with you I would hope to help you gain:
A deeper understanding of yourself
A less critical, punishing or destructive relationship with yourself
A better understanding of other people
An improved ability to make and maintain relationships
Greater pleasure in achievements, work and creative pursuits
Practice description
I am trained and experienced in working with people who have had difficult experiences, sometimes early in life. Some may have had parents who were depressed or struggling with addictions. I aim to help you explore difficult experiences and feelings, perhaps linked to issues such as anger, anxiety, depression, excessive worry, low self-esteem, perfectionism, OCD, panic attacks, difficulties in making or sustaining relationships and learn how to manage them more effectively.
An understanding of how we relate to one another within the therapeutic relationship becomes a way of understanding other relationships and experiences. I aim to help you explore and develop a stronger sense of yourself that can lead to making meaningful changes and a more fulfilling, creative way of being in the world at large.
I offer counselling for those who are perhaps seeking an exploration of their past by offering a psychoanalytic approach as well as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for people who might want to work on a more time-limited basis and for certain problems and disorders where research has shown it to be effective.
My first session
During an initial consultation session, I would like to talk to you about your current situation and explore what has prompted you to come to counselling at this particular point in your life. This allows for me to get to know something about your background and history, including previous experiences of therapy or counselling. It is very important for you to feel comfortable with me, and this initial session gives us the opportunity to consider whether I am the right person to help you and if this type of therapy would be useful to you.
What I can help with
Abuse, Addictions, Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Child related issues, Cultural issues, Depression, Health related issues, Identity issues, Loss, Men's issues, Obsessions, OCD, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Brief therapy, CBT, Cognitive, Integrative, Psychodynamic, Relational
Clients I work with
Adults
How I deliver therapy
Long-term face-to-face work, Online counselling, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone counselling, Time-limited