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Unique Conversations: Expert Counseling & Coaching Services

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Hello, Bonjour, my name is Claire Duchateau, Founder of Unique Conversations

You are probably the one who adapts, the one who seems together.

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I see you.

Because I understand, both professionally and personally, what it is to be a high-achieving, deeply feeling, frequently exhausted human who have spent years performing a version of themselves that fitted everyone else's expectations, and not their own needs.

 

I have been living in England for more than 25 years.

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Professional and personal experience led me to work with this rare intersection: neurodivergent minds, and LGBTQ identity. Add to this the complexity of living abroad.

Some feelings simply do not translate, and some frustrations absolutely require a first language to express properly.

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I work in English and in French, so you never lose nuance in translation, professionally or emotionally.

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My experience as a counsellor and a coach includes:

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  • Years of experience in counselling

  • working for

  • big organisations,

  • charities

  • and as an entrepreneur.

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I believe a single honest conversation can change everything. What I offer is not the flat polite kind, where everyone leaves feeling vaguely comfortable and entirely unchanged, the kind that shifts something. The kind the French would approve of, substantial, direct, and followed by a meaningful silence.

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I am looking forward to having one with you.​

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​I specialise in working with:

people who think they are possibly ADHD or are diagnosed neurodivergent and may also be LGBTQ; professionals and couples, French expats, and high-achievers who are ready to stop performing their life and start living it.

 

My areas of experience include

  • ADHD and neurodivergence;

  • LGBTQ identity and relationships;

  • couples and relationship therapy;

  • anxiety and depression;

  • expatriation and cultural identity;

  • career and work-related challenges;

  • self-esteem and self-development;

  • burnout;

  • life transitions.

Areas

Claire Duchateau counsellor and life coach

Qualifications and Professional Training

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  • Transformational Coaching Diploma, Animas, London

  • Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy, The Manchester College, December 2017

  • Certificate in Couple Counselling, Cedar Therapy Institute

  • PGCE in Modern Languages, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, 2000

  • Master of International Marketing, Communication and Culture, IAE, University of Lille 1, France, 1997

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Supporting individuals and couples through counselling, therapy, and coaching.

Location: Orrell, Wigan, WN5

Email: uniqueconversationswithclaire@gmail.com

Tel: 07867567871

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Business Hours

 

Mon - Wed: 9am - 7pm

​​Thursday: 1pm - 4pm

​Friday: 9am -1pm

© 2026 by Claire Duchateau

All Rights Reserved

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