Claire Ashby, NCPS

Claire Ashby is a UK-based counsellor, hypnotherapist, social worker and meditation instructor who works with people facing anxiety, stress, panic, low mood and sleep difficulties. She draws on her training and clinical experience to offer tailored counselling and hypnotherapy, often combining both approaches to help break unhelpful cycles of thought and behaviour and to support practical changes in daily life.

Claire is credentialed with the NCPS, a professional credential in counselling and psychotherapeutic practice, and she brings experience working with trauma, loss, bereavement and neurodivergent clients. She offers specialist support for fears and phobias, insomnia, panic attacks and the lingering effects of trauma and abuse, as well as areas such as relationships, family and parenting, self-esteem, anger and career concerns. Claire also works with ADHD and related challenges and addresses issues including attachment and abandonment, communication and control problems, dissociation and caregiver stress.

Her clinical approach is primarily person-centred, with additional therapeutic tools selected to match each person’s needs. These include cognitive behavioural techniques, trauma-focused methods, psychodynamic thinking, solution-focused work, motivational interviewing, mindfulness and hypnotherapy. She also uses meditation and relaxation exercises to support sleep and general wellbeing. Claire’s practice emphasises helping people reconnect with their own resources, build resilience and find practical ways to manage anxiety and low mood so they can move toward a more fulfilling, balanced life.