About Anna
Anna Claybaugh, LCSW, LICSW, brings a decade of clinical social work experience to therapy. Anna focuses on helping people find connection, honesty with themselves, and more ease in daily life. They speak English and Spanish and practice from Washington.
Anna often works with people who struggle to speak their needs or who put others first. This includes highly sensitive people, caregivers, and those with critical self-talk. Anna is also committed to supporting people in the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
How Anna works
In sessions Anna helps identify what gets in the way, teaches coping skills, and supports clients to reclaim power over their choices. The approach is direct but warm, with a relaxed, inviting manner that aims to reduce judgment and build trust. Anna draws on knowledge of brain science alongside psychotherapeutic methods to guide change.
Anna uses a compassion-centered, trauma-informed, and decolonized lens. They tailor work to each person and meet them where they are, whether they are just considering change or ready to take action. Practical skill-building and attention to emotional experience are both part of the work.
Anna trained at Arizona State University and New York University and holds both LCSW and LICSW credentials. They have ten years of experience and additional training in approaches that support trauma recovery, attachment concerns, and problem-solving. This background informs a flexible, individualized therapy style.
Anna lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Anna works with
The areas below are the ones Anna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Anna often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional responses; this can help with intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and patterns of connection. Client-Centered Therapy is another lens Anna uses, which focuses on listening carefully, validating experience, and helping people find their own solutions through a supportive, nonjudgmental stance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anna will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel helpful, adapt techniques over time, and tailor sessions to goals and preferences. This is a team effort where the therapist and client choose the path together.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or require less bandwidth, live chat offers a quicker check-in or brief problem-solving, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel commitments while keeping focus on progress and practical skills.
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