About Claudia
Claudia Santiago is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She practices in California and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Her approach is collaborative and affirming, aimed at practical steps a person can use day to day.
Claudia focuses on common concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, low self-esteem, and relationship strain. She also works with people facing ADHD, bipolar symptoms, sleep disruption, caregiving stress, and chronic illness.
Background and approach
Her goal is to help people regain stability and clearer perspective when life feels overwhelming. In sessions she centers the person’s experience and priorities. Conversations are used to identify patterns, try small behavior changes, and build coping tools.
Claudia uses a mix of problem-solving and reflection so people leave with concrete next steps they can test between meetings. She pays attention to how cultural background and identity shape feelings and choices. That perspective guides how she frames problems and suggests strategies.
People can expect direct, respectful feedback and a focus on what will make day-to-day life easier. Claudia helps clients sort through parenting stress, communication problems, body image concerns, and issues around attachment or abandonment. She also supports people dealing with codependency, substance use, dissociation, or the emptiness that often follows loss.
Work typically blends short-term goals with longer-term self-understanding.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and experience. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps the client decide what matters most. This approach supports work on self-esteem, grief, and life transitions where understanding and acceptance are central.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Claudia collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She mixes methods as needed and checks in to see what is helping and what needs adjustment.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when they want deeper interaction. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, on-the-go ways to reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines while keeping continuity of care with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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