About Claudia
Claudia "Clara" Garcia is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of practice. She is based in California and meets people in English and Spanish. Clara aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is uncertain or overwhelmed.
Her work focuses on stress and anxiety. She also helps with family tensions, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. Clara supports people facing big life changes and the day-to-day strain they bring.
Background and approach
Clara uses straightforward conversations to understand what matters most to each person. She listens with respect and sensitivity and adapts the plan to fit individual needs. Sessions focus on practical ways to cope and clearer ways to communicate.
Over 15 years she has helped people with a wide range of issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, and caregiver stress. She has experience with chronic illness, body image, and blended family dynamics as well. Clara offers different session options to match life demands, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
If someone is ready to begin, they select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule time according to therapist availability.
Approaches you can use remotely
Clara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce stress and anxiety. Another approach emphasizes building stronger communication and clearer boundaries to ease family conflict and parenting strain.Finding the right way to work is collaborative. Clara will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then recommend techniques that fit their situation. She adjusts methods over time based on what is or isn't helping and values the client’s input in that process.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever someone is. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share short thoughts between sessions and fit support into a busy day.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish