About Claudia
Claudia Boles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, parenting strain, and mood concerns. She works with people coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and relationship or family problems. Claudia brings two decades of clinical experience in hospital and mental health settings across California.
Claudia trained at the University of Southern California, where she earned a Master of Social Work and completed undergraduate studies.
Background and approach
She has worked with people from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Her background includes supporting those who face chronic illness, caregiving burdens, and loss, including bereavement after suicide. Her style is collaborative and practical.
Claudia helps people set clear goals, learn coping skills, and try small changes that fit daily life. She combines evidence-based methods with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to tailor each session to the person in front of her. Claudia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused approaches when appropriate.
She considers medical, social, cultural, and developmental factors when planning care. The aim is to increase coping, reduce symptoms that interfere with living, and improve everyday functioning. Outside clinical work she has volunteered as a crisis counselor and remains engaged with community organizations that support health and education.
Claudia also values nature and the arts, and brings that human perspective into sessions.
How Claudia’s Approaches Work Online
Claudia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small changes to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on current strengths and goals and helps people build steps toward what they want to change. It is useful for time-limited work and for making concrete progress. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impact of past traumatic events, helping people process memories and reduce triggers that get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claudia will discuss options and tailor methods to each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She aims to collaborate on a plan that feels manageable and effective, adjusting methods as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are like a traditional face-to-face visit and work well for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text sessions allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or more flexible timing during a busy day. These options make therapy easier to fit into everyday life and help maintain continuity of care across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English