Claire Bennett

I want to offer you an experience of supervision which is warm, open and reflective; very much a collaboration to nourish you and to support your clients. I strongly believe that, in common with client work, supervision works best within relationship.

I’d even like you to look forward to supervision and find it a place where you can grow and learn whilst feeling held and, on occasions, challenged, whilst working within the BACP Ethical Framework.

I'm a person-centred therapist with significant experience working with trauma for a charity and with more routine presentations in my own private practice. I primarily use the Seven-Eyed Model to help us explore what might be happening for the client, in your relationship with them and, of course, in our relationship.

Whether you are an experienced practitioner or a student working towards registration, I hope that we can look at your work with fresh eyes and that this helps you to feel encouraged and supported on what can be difficult and even lonely work.

I currently have availability on a Thursday and Friday and have some slots on a Saturday.

I'm Claire, a qualified (Dip HE, BA hons) humanistic therapist and I offer face-to-face, on-line, telephone, and walk&talk therapy in Newbury.    I am experienced in working with young people (12 years plus) and adults.

I specialise in working with trauma and attachment, loss, anxiety and depression.  

I work relationally with clients to help them to better understand their distress and to finds ways to ease symptoms and find a way through difficult emotions.

You are looking for a therapist because things aren't going well and perhaps you feel overwhelmed, anxious, sad or depressed? When you feel like that, even scrolling the directory can be off-putting and it might feel difficult to find what you need.

Perhaps you say to yourself that you have no right to feel the way you do and "what's counselling going to do to change things any way"?

I truly believe that you already have the answers, but being in a trusting therapeutic relationship can help you to get there sooner, so that you can find acceptance, process difficult "stuff" and do more of what helps you to feel better.

Because you can say it how it really is, (in a way that we don't always do with family and friends)  this open, frank conversation, can of itself be healing and can help you to understand what you really feel and to find ways to be more authentically you.

Counselling can help you to find your true inner voice and to look after the parts of you which might want to sabotage or criticise to keep you safe, so that you can begin to relate to yourself in new ways, and really start doing the things which are right for you. 

I am privileged to sit with clients and to offer empathy, curiosity and a non-judgemental space, to help them find more compassionate ways of being, new ways of viewing what's happened and, perhaps even a new appreciation for the human being they are!  

It can be difficult and sometimes painful*, but a rewarding and perhaps even life changing journey.

(* It might also be warm, funny, and interesting and less scary than you think!)

Our first FREE session will usually be over the phone and last around 30 minutes.  This is your chance to find out more about me and to see if you think we can work well together.  I don't charge for this session.  

After this, we can agree a regular day and time for our work together.