About Claudia
Claudia "Clara" Garcia is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She practices in California and speaks both English and Spanish. Clara focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, family conflict, parenting challenges, and major life changes.
Clara uses practical conversation and clear steps in sessions. She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Then she helps set small goals and tries techniques that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
She aims to make sessions easy to follow and relevant to real problems. Her background includes long clinical experience with people facing abandonment, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and blended family issues. She has also supported those dealing with chronic health problems, caregiving strain, body image concerns, and communication or control issues.
Clara draws on this range when tailoring care to a person's situation. Clara describes her approach as respectful and compassionate. She works with clients to shape a plan that matches their needs and pace.
People can expect straightforward talk, practical strategies, and an emphasis on small, manageable changes. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Starting therapy means taking a step forward, and she aims to make that step feel achievable.
Approaches for phobias and anxiety in online care
Clara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical steps and skills. One common approach she applies involves gradual exposure and coping strategies to reduce fear and avoidance; this means identifying manageable steps toward feared situations and practicing those steps until they feel more doable. Another frequent element is skills-based anxiety management, which teaches breathing, grounding, and thought-challenging exercises to help people handle intense moments.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Clara will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences before suggesting techniques. Together they review what works and adjust the plan over time, so the approach fits the person's life and pace.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for direct coaching and behavioral practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is not possible or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, homework prompts, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel needs, and maintain consistent contact with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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