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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