Claire Phillips, BACP

Claire Phillips is a BACP-registered counsellor with ten years of professional practice, offering a compassionate, person-centred approach to support people facing a wide range of emotional and behavioural challenges. She creates a welcoming space where clients can explore difficult thoughts and feelings at their own pace, and she believes that embracing complexity often opens the door to new perspectives in relationships and everyday life. Claire draws on her experience to help clients uncover strengths that support recovery and ongoing self-discovery, without promising quick fixes or simple answers.

Her background includes more than a decade living and working in South East Asia and over twenty years based in South East London, experience that informs a culturally sensitive way of working. Over the last ten years Claire has worked across diverse settings including NHS surgeries, prisons and drop-in centres, and has supported children and young adults in care home settings. These roles frequently involved complex presentations such as suicidal ideation, self-harm and drug or alcohol difficulties.

Claire has developed a thorough understanding of how trauma can affect thinking, behaviour and the body, and how untreated trauma can contribute to issues such as substance or alcohol misuse, depression, dissociation, sexual difficulties and social withdrawal. As a clinician she aims to facilitate healing by helping clients recognise and use their existing resources to meet the challenges they face.