About Claudia
Claudia Castiglione is a counsellor who uses psychodynamic ideas alongside trauma-focused work and Internal Family Systems. She focuses on anxiety and on relationship and intimacy concerns. Claudia accepts international clients and offers sessions in English.
Claudia views people as the experts on their own lives. She listens for patterns that cause pain and for strengths that can be built on. Sessions are aimed at helping clients understand recurring difficulties and make practical changes they want.
Background and approach
Her approach to trauma works by gently revisiting distressing experiences to reduce their hold on day-to-day life. The Internal Family Systems perspective helps identify different inner parts that carry emotions like shame, fear or anger and then works to harmonise them. Claudia has four years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She draws on that experience when helping people through grief, addiction, stress and mood challenges. Practical issues such as managing work stress, coping with major life changes, and improving self-esteem are worked through in straightforward sessions. Claudia offers video, phone, chat and text-based formats to suit different needs and routines.
People who come to Claudia often want a space to talk without judgement and to find clearer ways forward. She supports clients to set goals and to try small, manageable steps between sessions.
How psychodynamic and trauma-informed work translates online
Psychodynamic work focuses on patterns that repeat in relationships and daily life. Online sessions give space to talk about these patterns and to notice feelings that come up between meetings. Trauma-focused therapy gently helps people process upsetting events so they have less impact on everyday functioning and relationships. Internal Family Systems looks at the different parts of a person - for example the anxious part or the protective part - and helps them relate to each other more kindly.Deciding which of these approaches to use is part of the work. Claudia will collaborate with each person to understand their goals and preferences and to choose what to try first. That gives room to change direction if something does not fit or if different needs appear over time.
Online therapy can make sessions easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls approximate face-to-face meetings, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can allow shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people keep therapy going across time zones and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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