About Clymie
Clymie Allen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of practice. She brings a calm, direct style to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship strain, and parenting concerns. Clymie focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
She uses clear talk and straightforward tools to help clients cope with life changes. Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral ideas and existential reflection. That means she listens closely, helps people notice patterns that cause pain, and guides them to test new ways of thinking and behaving.
Background and approach
Sessions often include setting small goals, trying different skills, and checking what helps in everyday life. Clymie has worked in outpatient community settings and spent years at a VA hospital in Los Angeles. Her long experience includes helping adults, children, adolescents, and older adults in varied settings.
She is used to adapting her style to different ages and backgrounds. People come to her for a wide range of concerns - from trauma and abuse to sleeping or eating problems, intimacy worries, parenting strain, or chronic anger and low self-esteem. She also addresses topics like adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and coping after a disaster.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Clymie aims to make sessions practical and collaborative, helping people find manageable steps toward relief and clearer choices.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Work
Client-centered therapy begins by putting the person's experience front and center. The therapist listens without judgment, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify their own goals and values. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, grief, and general life stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses concrete exercises to test new ways of thinking and to build coping skills, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and addictive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback and shape the work over time.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or shorter updates between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping focus on goals and progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English