About Anna
Anna Claybaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of practice. Anna brings a calm, direct style to sessions and focuses on helping people build connection and authenticity in their lives. She is non-binary and works in English and Spanish from Washington.
Anna often helps people who struggle to speak up for their needs or to put themselves first. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, burnout and caregiving strain.
Background and approach
She is also experienced supporting LGBTQIA2S+ clients and those navigating intimacy or identity questions. Her approach blends practical skills with attention to relationship patterns. Anna uses client-centered listening to learn what matters most to each person.
She also draws on attachment ideas to show how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. Cognitive tools are used to shift unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills for sleep, eating, or anger challenges. For trauma, she may use EMDR-informed methods to help people process distressing memories.
Jungian ideas are sometimes woven in to explore meaning and personal symbols. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and the subscription model can be canceled at any time.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability. Anna emphasizes collaboration and practical steps. She aims to make therapy feel welcoming and nonjudgmental while focusing on change that fits each person's life.
Approaches that shape online work
Anna blends attachment-based and client-centered ways of working alongside cognitive behavioral techniques. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect trust and closeness now and can help with intimacy, abandonment and communication struggles. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening without judgment and following the person’s pace to build safety and clarity in goals. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and building concrete coping skills for anxiety, sleep problems, eating concerns and mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Anna collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs and goals. Together they try things, see what fits, and adjust the plan so therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular work easier. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for deeper connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people touch base between sessions or fit counseling into a busy day. These options help people keep momentum while fitting therapy into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish