About Claudia
Claudia Van Porter is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New Jersey who uses evidence-based therapeutic approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She draws on 15 years of experience to offer steady, practical support for everyday struggles. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping clients take small, useful steps forward.
Claudia often focuses on problems that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
She helps people work through relationship issues, low self-esteem, and the lasting effects of abuse. She also supports those coping with grief, separation, chronic illness, and caregiving challenges. The work is personalized to each person’s history and goals.
In sessions she pays attention to attachment concerns and patterns tied to abandonment or dependent personality traits. She also has experience addressing issues related to autism and intellectual disability, as well as needs of people who are hearing impaired. Practical strategies and clear communication are central to her approach.
Claudia is comfortable talking about complex feelings like guilt, shame, dissociation, and codependency. She helps clients sort emotions and make choices that reduce isolation and increase connection. Treatment can include coping skills, problem solving, and paced processing of difficult memories.
People who choose Claudia can expect a collaborative relationship where goals are set together. She explains options in plain language and checks in often to make sure the work feels helpful. Her aim is to help people build resilience and find steadier ground.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Claudia uses established, evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and behavioral strategies to manage anxiety and depression, helping people break unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding. Another approach focuses on working through trauma and difficult memories in a paced way that reduces overwhelm and improves daily functioning.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. Claudia works with each person to pick approaches that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She explains options plainly and adjusts methods based on progress and feedback so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is good for deeper conversations and reading nonverbal cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging works well for brief updates or when scheduling is tight. These options provide flexibility and help people maintain continuity of care despite changing schedules or locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English