About Claudia
Claudia Santiago is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a collaborative, client-centered approach to help people through hard times. She brings 12 years of experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Claudia speaks English and Spanish and practices in California as an LCSW.
Her work focuses on practical skills people can use right away. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing help clients notice choices and build motivation for change.
Background and approach
Claudia also addresses relationship and communication concerns, including issues tied to attachment, codependency, and blended family dynamics. She supports people coping with grief, chronic illness, addiction, and parenting stress. Phobias and sleep problems are part of the range she helps with.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Claudia aims to create a respectful space where clients can talk through painful memories, try new coping tools, and set achievable goals. She uses plain language and concrete strategies during sessions.
Her background emphasizes cultural awareness and an understanding of how identity affects emotional life. Clients can expect a warm, validating presence paired with clear steps for change. The goal is to strengthen resilience and improve day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring sessions to each person's needs. In practice this means the therapist prioritizes what matters most to the client, follows their pace, and focuses on building a trusting working relationship that guides treatment choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at ways thoughts and behaviors interact. Online sessions can teach simple CBT tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful thinking patterns using structured exercises and homework between meetings.
Mindfulness Therapy helps people build awareness of present-moment experience and reduce reactivity. Short guided practices and attention exercises can be introduced during video or phone sessions and reinforced with brief daily practices via messages.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and learning new skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging works well for quick check-ins, brief reflections, or practicing techniques between longer sessions. These options help clients fit therapy into busy schedules and keep treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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