Relationships are rarely separate from everything else, and Claire works with couples, family members, and partners both as a standalone support and where relationship dynamics are tangled up with other aspects of someone's experience. Eating disorder recovery, perinatal adjustment, neurodivergent experience, workplace stressors, and identity transitions all place particular demands on relationships, and involving partners, family members, or parents/caregivers in the therapeutic work, where appropriate and desired, can be an important part of the process.

Supporting a young person or loved one through an eating disorder, a chronic health condition, or significant mental health difficulties is one of the most demanding things a parent/caregiver, partner or family member can face; frightening, exhausting, and often isolating. Claire works directly with parents/caregivers, family members and partners to build understanding, confidence, and practical strategies. You deserve support too, not just guidance on what to do.

Claire also sees couples for relationship counselling independent of any other presenting concern. Relationships don't need to be in crisis to benefit from support, and many of the partners Claire works with come not because things have broken down, but because something has quietly shifted, or the distance between two people has grown in ways that are hard to name. Communication difficulties, conflict, the cumulative strain of demanding professional and personal lives, and the particular pressure that significant life transitions place on relationships — trying to start a family, parenthood, career change, loss, identity shifts, are all valid reasons to seek support together, and often more workable when addressed before they become entrenched.

For many couples, the value of this work is having a space to be honest in ways that feel difficult elsewhere, to say the things that have been going unsaid, and to understand each other's experience more fully than daily life tends to allow. Claire brings the same warm, direct approach to couples work that she brings to individual therapy, without taking sides, and without an agenda about what the relationship should look like.