Claire Gallaugher, BACP

Claire Gallaugher is a counsellor with 15 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing relationship and family strains, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy. Claire aims to offer a respectful and compassionate space where clients can take the first steps toward change.

She adapts sessions to each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Claire draws on a mix of approaches to help people manage anxiety, depression, stress, grief, anger and addictive behaviours. She also supports those dealing with parenting pressures, sleep problems, low self-esteem and career worries.

Claire has experience with attachment and abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues and family-of-origin patterns. Other areas she works with include codependency, commitment and communication problems, control and dependent personality features, and recovery after domestic violence or separation.

Her practice uses elements from attachment-based work, client-centred conversations, cognitive behavioural techniques, emotionally-focused work and mindfulness tools. In sessions she aims to help people notice patterns, try small practical changes and build clearer ways of relating to others.

Claire’s contracts are governed by Northern Ireland law and UK jurisdiction. Sessions are conducted in English and she is able to work with international clients. If someone wants to begin, she asks them to start via the site’s Start Therapy process so timing and matching can be arranged.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work focuses on how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns of closeness and distance and is useful for improving how they relate to others. Client-centred therapy centres the person's own experience and priorities, offering empathic listening and space to make sense of difficult feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to decide which methods to try based on their needs, goals and preferences. This may mean combining elements from different approaches and checking in regularly to see what helps.

The biography does not specify which session formats are used, so confirm the current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, such as reducing travel time, making it simpler to schedule during a work break, or allowing shorter check-ins when that suits the client. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, homework and mindfulness practices for remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.