Claire Shepherd

Experienced Online Integrative Therapist

I offer a warm, confidential, and non-judgmental space for you to gently explore and unravel your thoughts and feelings. Acknowledging from the start that what you are doing in our sessions together is brave, and difficult, and often very challenging, yet also necessary for you to move forward to be the person you want to be, feel what you want to feel. Together in our therapeutic relationship, we will go at whatever pace and direction works best for you.

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Profile

claireshepherd.counselling.online

Phone

07841474398

Email

therapycreatively@proton.me

Website

www.therapycreatively@proton.me

About me and my practice

If you are in crisis and need support to calm or unclutter your thoughts so that you can see a way forward when life has become overwhelming, counselling is a solid option with good research to support its success. Picking the right counsellor for you is the tricky bit, as we all have different ways of being, characters, and learned modalities to offer therapy. This is why I offer a 30-minute free assessment, where we spend a little time getting to know each other before committing to a healing journey together. My background is 20+ years as a therapist and 4+ years as a tutor, teaching counselling.

I have a neurodiverse brain. I come from a family of Dyslexics with Dyscalculia, ADHD, and AuDHD. I am drawn to support people who struggle with some of the distressing characteristics of neurodiversity, such as anxiety, poor timekeeping, overachieving, overwhelm, sensitivity to comments, noise, smells, light, etc.

I feel like I've lived a life of embarrassing missteps and mishaps that really leave me no room to judge others' lives. Supporting you, judgment-free, confidentially, in a safe space where you can be open to understanding yourself, those around you, and how you might move forward is what I'm trained and very much want to do.

Experience

I've been counselling since 2003, I've worked as a school counsellor, in youth and community, within the NHS as part of the mental health team, and been a tutor teaching on the Advanced Diploma Course at a College in Exeter.

I qualified as a Person-centred therapist, which is still my core way of being as a therapist; however, over the years I came to embrace the idea that therapy should fit the client, to work how you, the client, want/ need to work in therapy, and support you in the way you want support. To ensure this is what I offer, I transitioned into Integrative Therapy and have been using it successfully as my model for many years.

Integrative therapy allows you to discuss and choose from many options how you want your therapy sessions to be/ evolve. Talking is always the backbone of a session, yet within that you can explore creative interventions, learnt patterns of behaviour, and how your past impacts you now; should you want to.

Professional Membership

Registered member of BACP

Professional Register

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

Verified by Counsellingo on Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Initial Consultation

First 30 minute session free of charge, via audio or video.

Fees

Online Counselling Hr. £45.00
Other session lengths available; please see my website.

When I Work

Monday - Friday 08.30am - 7pm
Saturday 10.00am - 1pm

Therapeutic Approach

Integrative

Video Platforms

Teams/Zoon

Pronouns

She/Her

Area

Devon

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