About Claudia
Claudia Lefort is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people struggling with stress and anxiety find clearer ways forward. She focuses on practical changes in thinking and behavior so clients can manage daily life more effectively. Claudia keeps a warm, straightforward approach that aims to help people feel more capable and confident.
She often begins by asking what brought someone to therapy and what they hope to change.
Background and approach
Early sessions map goals and identify immediate steps toward relief. Claudia favors brief, goal-oriented work when that fits a person’s needs, while remaining open to longer conversations when needed. Claudia uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding.
She also draws on mindfulness techniques to build awareness and solution-focused methods to set small, achievable goals. Sessions may include reading materials or exercises to try between meetings. She values the role of cultural background and life context in shaping a person’s choices and feelings.
Claudia encourages active participation and accountability in the process so people can build confidence as they make changes. Her tone in sessions is empathetic, honest, and practical. People come to Claudia for a range of concerns including relationship strain, low self-esteem, grief, caregiving stress, substance issues, and life transitions.
She also supports those exploring life purpose and self-love, aiming to help them move from feeling stuck to taking manageable steps forward.
How Claudia Uses Practical Approaches Online
Claudia commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. This approach breaks problems into small parts so clients can practice new behaviors and notice changes over time.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness exercises can help quiet racing thoughts and make stressful moments more manageable.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Claudia discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts techniques as the work unfolds. Together they choose what feels most useful and try practical steps that match the client’s needs.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or between-session work. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins during a workday, or follow-up between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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