About Claudia
Claudia Van Porter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. She practices in New Jersey and uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide clients through difficult changes and painful memories. Claudia writes in plain terms and aims for clear, achievable steps in therapy.
Claudia focuses on practical help for common problems like social anxiety, attachment-related worries, and the fallout of divorce or loss.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with codependency, feelings of abandonment, and the emotional effects of chronic illness or hospice care. Sessions are intended to help clients name what feels wrong and try manageable ways to feel steadier. Her work emphasizes understanding each person's background and strengths.
She helps clients build skills for coping, improve relationships, and reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Conversations move at a pace set by the client and often include goal-setting and skill practice between sessions. Claudia also has experience assisting people with intellectual disability, hearing impairment, dissociation, and isolation.
She pays attention to how those experiences change daily life and relationships. The aim is steady progress, not quick fixes. Therapy with Claudia combines practical techniques and a supportive stance.
She invites clients to try different approaches and adjusts care based on what helps most. For many people the work leads to clearer choices, healthier boundaries, and improved mood and confidence.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Claudia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and recovery. One common approach she applies emphasizes teaching coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. This involves breaking problems into small tasks and practicing new reactions in everyday life.Another approach centers on understanding attachment and relationship patterns. Sessions help people notice recurring relationship habits, name their triggers, and practice healthier ways to connect or set boundaries. This work can be useful for relationship stress, codependency, and feelings of abandonment.
Finding the right way to work together is a shared process. Claudia collaborates with clients to choose which techniques to try and adjusts the plan based on progress and comfort. Clients are invited to give feedback and help shape each session so the approach matches their goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for this kind of work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat support check-ins or brief exercises between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to try skills in real time while staying connected with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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