Clare Payne, BACP

Clare Payne works with people who want clearer thinking and steadier emotional footing. She helps with anxiety, stress, low mood, relationship difficulties and career worries. Clare also supports those facing grief, trauma, intimacy concerns and ageing and geriatric issues. Sessions are person-centred and shaped around what matters to each person on the day.

Clare practises from a humanistic, client-centred frame. That means the client leads the pace and topics while Clare listens, reflects and offers gentle direction. Early sessions focus on understanding why someone has come to therapy and on practical goals they want to reach. Clare aims to make each meeting straightforward and manageable.

Her training includes a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Coaching from the University of East London. Clare also completed courses in Person-Centred Counselling and Life Coaching, which feed into a flexible style of working. She has four years of practice experience and holds a BACP credential, which appears as BACP.

In sessions Clare may draw on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, motivational interviewing or psychodynamic thinking when these suit the client’s goals. She combines short-term practical work with space to notice recurring patterns. People work on building coping strategies, clarifying values and making small changes that add up.

Therapy is described in plain terms and scheduled in regular 45-minute meetings. The early meetings are also an opportunity to check fit and agree on goals. To begin, clients follow the site’s Start Therapy process and complete the short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How Clare’s approaches work online

Clare draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside a client-centred frame. ACT looks at values and small actions that move someone toward a richer life, and it can help with anxiety, low mood and stress. Attachment-based ideas focus on patterns in relationships and help people understand how earlier bonds shape current reactions.

The process of finding the right approach is collaborative. Clare listens to what you want to change and discusses which methods might help. Together you agree priorities and try practical steps, then adapt the work as you go.

Confirm session formats before booking so you know how meetings will be arranged. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to use quieter surroundings or choose not to use video depending on what suits them. Registered or accredited professionals will discuss the best way to run sessions to fit your life and goals.