About Claudia
Claudia Briceno is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on practical techniques clients can use day to day. She centers sessions on clear communication, empathy, and rebuilding self-esteem to help people manage stress and anxiety. Claudia speaks English and Spanish and brings nine years of clinical experience to her work in Massachusetts.
She uses straightforward tools to help people set healthy boundaries and handle relationship and intimacy concerns. Sessions often include skill-building around emotional regulation, coping with grief or trauma, and improving sleep and eating patterns.
Background and approach
Claudia guides people to notice patterns and try small, manageable changes between meetings. Claudia draws from approaches that emphasize thoughts, emotions, and present-moment awareness. She helps clients learn to identify unhelpful thinking, practice emotion-regulation skills, and focus on concrete steps toward goals like better communication or increased self-worth.
The therapist frames this as collaborative problem-solving rather than lecturing. Her practice also covers a wide range of life stressors, including career strain, compassion fatigue, postpartum mood concerns, and illness-related issues such as HIV/AIDS and hospice conversations. She pays attention to how aging, body image, and sexuality can affect wellbeing and daily functioning.
People who want short-term goal work or longer-term exploration can expect a mix of practical strategies and chance to reflect on deeper patterns. Claudia encourages honesty in the room and works with each person to build a plan they feel able to try between sessions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Claudia often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions focus on identifying patterns, testing new ways of thinking, and practicing small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping. DBT work includes teaching breathing and grounding techniques, distress-tolerance tools, and ways to strengthen relationships through clearer communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claudia will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then choose techniques together. That collaborative plan can shift over time as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face work on communication and emotion skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when people prefer written exchanges. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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