About Claudia
Claudia Boles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and depression. She brings two decades of experience in hospitals, healthcare, and mental health settings. Claudia also supports people coping with caregiving strain, chronic illness, postpartum challenges, and the ripple effects of domestic violence or loss.
She uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Claudia draws from cognitive behavioral approaches to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused ideas to set small, achievable goals and trauma-informed strategies when past hurt affects daily life. Claudia trained at the University of Southern California, where she earned a Master of Social Work, and she previously studied social sciences and Spanish. Her background includes volunteer work with crisis counseling services and other community organizations that support health and education.
In meetings she mixes mindfulness and motivational interviewing with evidence-based tools. That means clients practice skills, notice what works, and make steady, realistic changes between sessions. She pays attention to the whole person - physical health, family background, work, culture, and spiritual concerns.
Claudia often helps people facing adoption or foster care challenges, blended family issues, immigration stress, or first responder strain. She offers a compassionate, steady presence and focuses on practical steps that improve how people cope with life changes and ongoing mood or panic symptoms.
How Claudia’s Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Claudia draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, panic, mood challenges, and stress by teaching concrete skills for everyday situations. She also uses trauma-focused techniques to address the emotional and practical effects of past hurt, helping people reduce triggers and build coping steps that feel manageable.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Claudia will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and life circumstances and then tailor methods so they fit the person and the online format. That means checking in regularly and adjusting techniques when something isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when depth and nonverbal cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step skill work possible between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and practice coping strategies consistently.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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