About Claudette
Claudette Gaynor is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and who are facing major life changes. Claudette speaks plainly and works with each person to find practical steps that fit their life.
She centers sessions on self-acceptance and self-compassion. Claudette helps clients notice long-held beliefs that get in the way and then practices small, new behaviors to shift those patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include homework and simple exercises to try between meetings. Claudette mixes client-centered conversation with mindfulness and meditation practices. She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance and commitment ideas when they are helpful.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and existential exploration to look at meaning and values. Her work often supports people dealing with grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, parenting stress, and career or identity transitions. She also addresses issues like low self-esteem, anger, attachment wounds, and compassion fatigue.
Claudette aims to help people use their inner resources to reduce suffering and build a more meaningful life. Sessions are offered in English and Claudette accepts international clients. People who choose to work together can expect a mix of talk, mindfulness practice, and concrete tasks to try between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Claudette uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in ways people can apply to everyday life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while you move toward what matters. It can help with anxiety, stress, and difficult life changes. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, offering empathic listening and support to clarify goals and values.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem by practicing new ways of thinking and acting. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process - the therapist and client will decide together what fits the client’s goals, needs, and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a face-to-face session from wherever they are, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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