About Claire
Claire Nana is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and life changes. She listens carefully and works alongside each person to set clear, practical goals.
Claire uses an approach that centers the person and their values. She draws on client-centered work to create space for people to tell their story. She uses existential ideas to help people clarify what matters and make choices that fit their life.
Background and approach
She also brings psychodynamic and trauma-focused perspectives when digging into patterns that repeat or past harms that still affect day-to-day life. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful. Claire helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try new ways of coping, and practice skills between meetings.
She balances exploration of past experiences with steps that make a difference now. Her background includes experience with addictions, trauma and abuse, body image and eating concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She has worked with people processing prejudice, multicultural stress, and life transitions like divorce and career shifts.
Claire is licensed in California and Colorado as an LMFT. She offers work by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging and supports English-speaking and international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people feel understood. It is useful when someone wants a steady space to talk through anxiety, relationship concerns, or life decisions and to build self-trust.Existential therapy helps people clarify what matters most and make choices that align with their values. This approach can help when someone feels stuck, is facing big life changes, or wants more meaning in daily life.
Psychodynamic work looks at repeating patterns and the ways past experiences shape present behavior. It can be helpful for people who want to understand why certain feelings or reactions keep showing up and to shift those patterns over time.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Claire will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as therapy progresses. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what actually helps the individual.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options increase flexibility and let people choose what works best for their schedule and communication style.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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