About Clea
Clea Weiss is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience supporting adults through hard moments. She offers practical care for common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain. Clea works with individuals and couples to help them make changes that fit their lives.
She practices from a straightforward, collaborative stance. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on realistic steps to feel better. Clea blends talking, problem solving, and emotional work so people can move through painful situations with clearer thinking and more confidence.
Background and approach
Clea helps parents who are juggling family demands and people facing separation or divorce. She also works with those navigating blended family issues, codependency, communication breakdowns, and infidelity. Career concerns, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and young adult issues are part of her caseload as well.
Her approach draws from client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally-focused methods, psychodynamic ideas, and solution-focused techniques. That mix allows her to tailor sessions to each person’s goals and style. Sessions may include gentle exploration of past patterns and practical skill-building for day-to-day challenges.
Based in New Jersey, Clea holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker, often abbreviated LCSW. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Client-centered therapy centers the person in the room and begins by listening carefully to what matters most. It helps people clarify goals and feel understood, which can quickly build momentum for change in video or phone sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It works well online because homework, thought records, and brief skill practice fit naturally into follow-up messages or live chat between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on how emotions shape relationships and personal safety. This approach helps people notice and name strong feelings, then try new ways of connecting and responding, which can be explored in real time over video or phone.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they can try a method and adjust it over time to match the client's needs.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions are often useful when lower bandwidth or less visual contact is needed. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice easy to fit into a workday or parenting schedule, offering flexibility for different rhythms and needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English