About Claudia
Claudia Clarke is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and addictive behaviors. She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day, and she aims to make therapy feel manageable and clear. Claudia works with individuals who are trying to regain a sense of control and purpose during difficult life changes.
Claudia builds sessions around straightforward conversation and concrete tools.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that cause repeated pain, such as attachment wounds, impulsivity, or trouble with self-worth. From there she and the client choose simple strategies to reduce symptoms and improve decision making. Her practice also addresses concerns like caregiver stress, isolation and loneliness, money and financial worries, and problems with communication.
Claudia pays attention to how shame, guilt, and past abandonment experiences affect current behavior and relationships. She helps clients practice new ways of relating to themselves and others. Claudia emphasizes step-by-step skill building over jargon.
Clients can expect a mix of short-term coping techniques and longer work on life goals and identity. She aims to help people leave sessions with one or two clear actions to try before the next meeting. Claudia provides services as a Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor, and she offers sessions in English.
Her work is informed by evidence-based therapeutic techniques and by a pragmatic focus on what people need right now.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Claudia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One approach emphasizes skill building to manage anxiety and mood symptoms through breathing, grounding, and behavior changes that reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Another approach looks at patterns in relationships and attachment so clients can spot repeating habits and try different ways of connecting that lower conflict and isolation.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Claudia will talk with each client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust plans based on what is working. The aim is to collaborate on a clear, realistic path rather than follow a fixed method.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions easier to fit into life. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, between-session support, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a workday. These options increase flexibility and help people access steady care without changing their daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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