About Christy
Christy Clavio is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings ten years of practice to her work in North Carolina. She focuses on practical ways to help people cope with stress, anxiety, addiction, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and life changes. Christy speaks plain language and aims to help people feel more in control of their day-to-day lives.
She integrates mind-body ideas into sessions, teaching simple breathing, relaxation, and mindfulness tools people can use at home.
Background and approach
Christy also draws on expressive methods such as music and movement to help people process feelings when talking alone feels hard. Her approach emphasizes strengths and small steps that add up to real change. Christy supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting pressures, sleep problems, eating concerns, anger, career stress, compassion fatigue, and attention difficulties.
She has experience in addiction recovery and trauma work and offers ways to manage mood swings and bipolar-related challenges. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness, self-compassion, and clearer decision-making. Her background includes clinical work in schools, recovery education settings, and trauma-focused programs for youth and adults.
That experience informs a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs. Christy teaches continuing education for other professionals and brings that learning into everyday sessions. People who prefer hands-on, mind-body methods alongside talk therapy tend to fit well with her style.
She helps clients set realistic goals, practice new skills between sessions, and build routines that support better sleep, relationships, and coping.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Christy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that translate well to remote work. Cognitive behavioral ideas focus on noticing thoughts and testing them with small experiments, which helps with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Mindfulness-based practices teach simple breathing and attention skills that reduce stress and improve sleep, and these exercises can be guided in a session or practiced between meetings.She also incorporates expressive methods like music and movement to help people access emotions when talking is difficult. These activities can be adapted for video or text formats so clients can try different ways of working together. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a shared process - the therapist will discuss needs, preferences, and goals with the person and adjust methods over time to find the best fit.
Online sessions allow flexibility in scheduling and format. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to keep momentum between meetings, send brief updates, or work through immediate coping steps. This range of options helps clients fit therapy into busy lives and continue care from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English