About Clifford
Dr. Clifford Green is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Hawaii who helps people facing anxiety and related concerns. He brings eight years of clinical experience and a background in social work and clinical psychology to his practice.
He writes plainly and works directly with people to address the stresses that interfere with daily life. He focuses on common and complex issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addictions, trauma, and burnout.
Background and approach
He also supports people dealing with bipolar disorder, ADHD, intensity of anger, and struggles with self-esteem. He has special experience with sexual trauma and with concerns common in the LGBT community. Dr.
Green uses a blend of approaches tailored to each person. Sessions are collaborative and practical. He helps people identify unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and try different strategies to reduce symptoms and improve relationships.
In sessions he draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in relationships and on cognitive behavioral tools to address thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety. He also uses emotion-focused and dialectical strategies when people need help tolerating strong feelings or repairing important relationships. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and works with people across time zones.
Getting started involves selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a session that fits each person's needs.
How his approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and helps people see how past bonds shape current trust and closeness. This approach is useful for people who feel stuck in recurring conflicts or who want to change how they relate to loved ones.Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can be heard and make choices at their own pace. It helps when someone needs listening, validation, and gentle guidance to find their own solutions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns and translates well to online sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with him can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and reading nonverbal cues, phone is simple when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging allows frequent, flexible contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, travel, or busy days while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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