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About Claire

About
Me

"Healing happens when we feel safe enough to be fully ourselves."

Claire Ratcliffe, psychotherapist
Background

A specialist in relational and couples psychotherapy

I am a BACP-registered psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, and a member of the UKCP, currently completing my UKCP accreditation. My work is integrative, drawing on Transactional Analysis, Relational Psychotherapy, Nervous System Regulation and a wide range of specialist approaches in couples, relationship and sex therapy.

I work online with individuals, couples and therapist groups across the UK and worldwide — many of my clients are British expats and English speakers living abroad. Working with me from outside the UK →

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Full training & qualifications

Training across therapy, supervision and specialist areas

Psychotherapy Training

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Transactional Analysis & Integrative Psychotherapy
  • Certificate in The Theory & Methods of Relational & Integrative Psychotherapy
  • Diploma in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy
  • 101 Transactional Analysis Certificate
  • Advanced Certificate in Trauma Informed Therapy
  • Certificate in Working with Eating Disorders
  • Certificate in Working with Therapy Groups
  • Certificate in Navigating your Nervous System

Neurodiversity

  • Certificate in Understanding Autism
  • Certificate in The Inner World of Asperger's
  • Certificate in Introduction to Child Development
  • Certificate in Neurobiology & Human Development
  • Certificate in Understanding ADHD
  • Certificate in Neurodiversity

Couples & Relationship Therapy

  • The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy — The Couples Institute
  • Relational Life Therapy for Couples – Level 1 – Relational Life Institute
  • Assessing & Treating Sex Issues in Psychotherapy — Institute for Relational Intimacy
  • Advanced Certificate in Couples & Relationship Counselling
  • Advanced Certificate in Working with Affairs & Trauma
  • Working with Common Sexual Difficulties in Women (COSRT)
  • Transactional Analysis and Working with Couples
  • Can We Repair After the Affair / Forgiveness After the Affair
  • Domestic Abuse Awareness · BDSM/Kink · Infidelity & Trauma
  • Working with Couples Online — The Couples Institute
  • Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (COSRT)
  • Queer Relationships & Queer Therapy (COSRT)
  • How to Love After Childhood Trauma

Additional & Supervision Training

  • Psychology of Sexualised Trauma
  • Working Therapeutically with Survivors of Sexualised Trauma
  • Working with Addiction · Diploma in Social Care
  • Transgender Awareness
  • Supervision Training — Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy (2015)
  • Group Supervision training
  • Certificate in LGBTQ+ informed Supervision