About Claudia
Claudia Van Porter is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. She works from New Jersey and uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide clients through difficult transitions and painful memories. She focuses on practical work in sessions.
Claudia helps people name what feels overwhelming and then practices skills to reduce distress. She also addresses attachment concerns and patterns that affect relationships and self-worth.
Background and approach
Claudia often supports people coping with trauma, abuse, divorce, loss, and caregiving stress such as hospice and end-of-life challenges. She also brings experience with issues like abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and feelings of isolation and loneliness. Sessions include conversations about strengths, repeated practice of new ways of responding, and steps to rebuild confidence after setback or loss.
She also adapts her approach when intellectual disability, hearing impairment, or autism are part of a person’s situation to keep interventions useful and clear. Her style is steady and practical. Claudia aims to help people find small, manageable changes that add up to clearer thinking and better day-to-day functioning.
She will work with each person to set goals and track progress over time.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Claudia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize clear, teachable skills and steady progress. One commonly used approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce anxious thinking and low mood. This kind of work helps people feel less stuck and more in control of day-to-day worry.Another approach centers on understanding attachment and relationship patterns. Sessions look at how early bonds show up now and practice new ways of relating that reduce conflict and increase connection. This helps people manage relationship stress and improve self-esteem over time.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Claudia will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. She works with clients to track what helps and what needs to change so the therapy fits the individual’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when schedules allow. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or fit sessions into a break at work. These formats make regular care more accessible while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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