Claire de la Varre, PhD, HGDipP
Claire de la Varre is a psychotherapist and expert author on trauma, dissociation, and mind-body approaches to mental health. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of North Carolina and trained in hypnotherapy, Transactional Analysis, Advanced Integrative Therapy, and the Human Givens approach. A Registered Member of the Human Givens Institute (MHGI), she is also affiliated with the American Psychological Association’s Division 30 (Society of Psychological Hypnosis), the National Guild of Hypnotists, and the Advanced Integrative Therapy Institute.
Claire is the editor of Therapy in the Wild, an international anthology of nature poems by clients and therapists from ten countries (Positive Spiral Press, 2023), and writes regularly on therapy, trauma, and the healing power of story on Medium (@cfihscotland). She serves as a hypnotherapy trainer and supervisor and has contributed hypnotherapy content to the Aura Health app. Her writing draws on more than a decade of clinical experience integrating neuroscience, hypnotherapy, and depth-psychology traditions into practical, strengths-based mental health education.