About Clarissa
Clarissa Wadley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with seven years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing depression, trauma and abuse, and the stress that comes with life transitions. Her approach is grounded in listening first and helping clients find practical ways to feel steadier.
Clarissa believes people know their stories best and brings a respectful, strengths-focused outlook to sessions.
Background and approach
She helps clients name what matters most, set manageable goals, and practice small changes that add up. Conversations are direct and compassionate, and she focuses on useful tools rather than jargon. She has worked with concerns tied to family strain and relationship patterns such as attachment and codependency.
Clarissa also supports people dealing with abandonment wounds, caregiver stress, communication problems, and feelings of isolation or shame. She includes attention to life purpose, forgiveness, and self-acceptance when those topics come up. Clarissa draws on established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with social anxiety, seasonal mood changes, and intrusive worry.
Sessions aim to build coping skills for everyday life and to reduce the burden of overwhelming emotions. She helps clients practice new behaviors between meetings. Based in Pennsylvania, Clarissa offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing support.
She encourages small first steps and works collaboratively to find what fits each person’s pace and needs.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Many of the techniques Clarissa uses are evidence-based and focus on skills people can practice between sessions. One common approach is behavioral activation, which helps people break cycles of withdrawal and low mood by scheduling small, meaningful activities to boost daily structure and mood. This is useful for depression and for rebuilding routine during life changes.Another helpful approach targets anxious thoughts and avoidance by teaching practical coping strategies and graded exposure. Clients learn to notice worry, try small steps toward feared situations, and track progress. This method can reduce social anxiety, phobias, and persistent worry over time.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Clarissa works with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts plans as progress is made, and she emphasizes skills that feel doable in everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or other demands. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction matters, phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins and steady support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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