About Clifford
Dr. Clifford Green is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing addictions, trauma, mood concerns, anxiety, relationship problems, and identity-related struggles. He practices from Hawaii and offers a straightforward, compassionate approach.
He aims to make therapy practical and understandable for people under stress. Dr. Green uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
He often draws on attachment-focused work to address relationship and intimacy problems. He also uses cognitive-behavioral tools to help with mood, anxiety, and coping skills.
Background and approach
Emotion-focused and dialectical strategies support people working through intense emotions or life transitions. His background includes social work and clinical practice across behavioral mental health settings. He has worked with people who have experienced trauma, sexual trauma, substance use, and serious mental health concerns.
He also has experience with issues related to sexual expression and the LGBTQIA+ community. Sessions emphasize collaboration and practical steps. Conversations focus on building insight, strengthening coping skills, and setting small goals that fit everyday life.
He aims to help people feel more in control and better able to handle stressors. Dr. Green communicates in clear, direct language and tries to make therapy accessible.
He accepts international clients and offers multiple online session formats. His LCSW credential stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker and reflects his professional licensure in Hawaii.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on connection and how early relationship patterns shape present relationships. It can help with intimacy, trust, abandonment fears, and patterns that repeat in adult relationships. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center and creates a space for self-direction and personal growth. It helps when someone needs to process identity, self-esteem, or major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to find practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress. It teaches concrete skills like thought review and behavioral experiments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as needs change.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can work well for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs a brief touchpoint during a busy day. These options help people fit therapy into work, travel, or different time zones while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English