About Clifford
Dr. Clifford Green is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing anxiety, phobias, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, mood disorders, and addictions. He works with worries like anger, grief, low self-esteem, ADHD, and stress from life changes.
He practices from Hawaii and speaks English. He takes a straightforward, collaborative approach in sessions. He listens first to understand a person’s immediate needs.
Then he and the client pick practical steps to try.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills people can use between appointments to manage symptoms and improve daily life. His background includes eight years of clinical practice and a doctorate in clinical psychology as well as social work degrees. The LCSW credential identifies him as a licensed clinical social worker in Hawaii.
That mix of education and fieldwork informs how he blends methods for each person. Dr. Green often draws on attachment-based ideas to look at close relationships and on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
He also uses emotion-focused and dialectical techniques when stronger emotion regulation or relationship repair is needed. He adapts methods to the issue at hand rather than using one fixed model. People can expect respectful, direct conversations that emphasize coping skills, clearer communication, and step-by-step progress.
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so work can continue between appointments and fit different schedules.
Approaches for online work and relationship healing
Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current patterns. It helps when fears of abandonment, closeness, or trust get in the way of daily life or relationships. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting a person's own goals. It helps people explore values, build self-esteem, and make choices that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It gives practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change avoidance patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist partners with each person to choose methods based on their goals, symptoms, and what feels helpful. That may mean starting with skills from CBT, then shifting to attachment or emotion-focused work as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep progress between sessions. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper interaction is useful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection, quick skill refreshers, or brief progress updates that fit into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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