“Because people are my business and helping people my passion and purpose, finding new and really effective ways to help folk in the mental health field has helped me express and apply my love for innovation in action.
Extensive autoethnographic research with clients and others; and the testing and application of new methods with clients, is what saw the dawn of a new era for my work: helping me devise a trademarked modality called Frequency Balance™. To both diagnose and treat mental health issues uniquely and effectively.”
“Hi! My name’s Claire Gilchrist, and I’m an innovator, teacher, counsellor, coach, speaker and writer-currently specialising in mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression, anger, panic, focus issues, addictions, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, ADHD, OCD, Bipolar Disorder- and more.
For the last twenty years, I’ve worked extensively as a counsellor, coach, trainer and speaker. As counsellor, in private practice, companies and recovery centres - with adults, teens and childrenin many different counselling arenas. And currently, I focus very much on mental health and mental health innovation.
Coaching and training over the years has also seen me fulfil a range of skills in private practice, corporate (organisations and companies) and the education sector (colleges and schools).
And speaking has been a joy for me! I’ve had the privilege of speaking to many wonderful audiences over the years,sharing insights across a range of platforms,and it’s been a truly rewarding journey…”
Claire has often said that the dawn of a new era for her work, particularly in the field of mental health innovation, happened almost involuntarily. It started in the very first Covid lockdown in South Africa, in April 2020: a time which she reflects on as “a time which tested us in ways we couldn’t have imagined; a time of immense challenge and uncertainty, but a time which catalysed transformation, new ideas, new ways of thinking – and a focus in that silence of living alone, which encouraged me to dig very deep into my online mental health consultations at the time.”
It was this, for Claire, which revealed completely new ways of understanding and treating certain mental health issues, and also inspired the beginnings of her new and unique therapy modality,Frequency Balance™.Extensive auto ethnographic research with clients and others followed; and subsequently the testing and applying of new treatment methods with clients, which proved to be most successful!
Claire’s innovative, trademarked therapy modalityFrequency Balance™(The Gilchrist Method) has been specifically designed to educate, counsel, coach and heal on every aspect of mental health issues, no matter how the issue presents. And it works on an interesting two levels:
Firstly, it’s a modality to fully identify and treat disorders at source. Claire discovered or ‘unearthed’ 48 very distinctive subconscious behaviour patterns in her research, which could be seen to underly mental health issues like Bipolar, ADHD, OCD, Body Dysmorphia; anxiety, depression, panic and anger issues, mood swings, addictions and eating disorders. Not only does this imply that these issues are completely interrelated, but that they can actually be considered markers of the same ‘syndrome’ or ‘spectrum’, bipolar really being the “nth” degree in terms of its intensity and variable symptoms.
Treating and transforming theseintrinsic behaviourscan change the very ways in which ‘sufferers’ think, feel, act, react and even believe: and this change then has a profoundly positive impact on symptoms such as highs, lows, mood swings, focus issues, fixations, avoidance tendencies and the like.
Secondly, Frequency Balance™is also about treatingsymptoms of mental health disorders with simple, easy, everyday tools which are straightforward to learn - to gain and maintain stability.
Claire’s 2025 course,‘The Simplicity of Stability – Tools that Work!’ teaches these simple and unique tools for self-stabilising, to both ‘sufferers’ (for their personal use) and therapists (to assist their clients). More about this on the Services page.
By coalescing the two therapeutic approaches, Claire has the winning combination: to help you self-manage, recover and even heal. And never be a victim of your condition…
Claire has recently done talks and interviews aboutFrequency Balance and shared some of her innovative toolkit in talks such as “My Journey to Developing Frequency Balance”- for the local/international ‘Women Empowering and Inspiring Women Group’; also “Amazing Tools to help ADHD kids” for the international ‘ADHD Thrive Festival’. She’s been interviewed about her work in groups such as ‘The Global SHE-Circle’ and ‘Gutsy Women Today’, and in podcasts such as the UK-based ‘Trio Wellbeing Podcast’ for UK therapist Mathew Roderick.
And PS: the book introducing these tools for self-stabilising and learning how to easily self-manage mental health issues is on the way!
AndFrequency Balance has travelled! A year or two ago saw Claire travel to the UK to both research and applyFrequency Balance principles and techniques for a very severe type of Bipolar Disorder; and she’d be the first to say: “through this amazing opportunity, working on a very demanding level, yet garnering rewarding results, I honestly felt I’d learned even more about this debilitating disorder.”
Claire’s qualifications are as follows:
*Bachelor of Arts (Honours) * Bachelor’s degree in Metaphysical Science * Master’s Degree in Metaphysical Science *Certified Facilitator * Studies in Hypno- and Regression therapies.
Her client base is located in South Africa, the UK, Europe – and is always expanding! For further details there’s a link to her CV and her other (slightly older) website below.
Also, a link to the lovely podcast interview on Claire and her work - with Mathew Roderick of Trio Wellbeing (therapy) in the UK. Just click on the link below and open the chat on Spotify.”
CV: Link to 2025 CV
And of course, pages on social media:
Linked In (Claire J. Gilchrist).https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-j-gilchrist-60306014/
Facebook (Frequency Balance).https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086943060743
Facebook (Vocalise Life).https://www.facebook.com/ClaireJGilchristTherapy/
And do check out the Services page on this site for what she’s offering you this year!
Last words: “I do believe that constant openness to and practice of new methods is what helps us find even better ways to tackle the mysteries of mental health. For me, innovation and the new and fresh, (and sometimes ironically, the simple and logical) are our keys to the future of really successful mental health treatment globally.”