About Claudia
Claudia Carballal-Benaglio is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who leans on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and life transitions. She combines practical thinking work with storytelling and mindfulness to find clearer paths forward. Claudia speaks English and Spanish and practices in Texas.
Claudia draws on varied life experience. Before counseling she worked as an attorney and later spent more than a decade as a life coach and yoga practitioner.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped how she guides people through negotiation, self-inquiry, and calmer habits. Sessions often focus on clearer thinking, better communication, and day-to-day coping skills. Her counseling blends cognitive behavioral techniques with narrative work and attachment-based ideas.
That means clients look at unhelpful thoughts, reframe personal stories, and notice how early relationships shape present patterns. Mindfulness practices are also used to build tolerance for strong feelings and to steady focus. People come to Claudia for many concerns, including anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, addiction-related issues, and identity or intimacy questions.
She also addresses attachment wounds, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin issues. Work in sessions is practical, with steps to try between meetings. Claudia has three years of formal experience as an LPC and maintains a independent practice in Texas.
Her bilingual skills allow sessions in English or Spanish. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Practical approaches for online therapy and everyday life
Claudia uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test different ways of thinking. This approach focuses on small changes clients can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.She also works with attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns shape current struggles. That work helps people notice repeated interaction habits and develop new, healthier ways of relating to others.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Claudia will discuss goals, preferences, and life demands to decide whether CBT, attachment work, or a mix fits best. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and daily rhythms. Video lets people read facial cues and practice communication in real time. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while using approaches that match individual goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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