About Claire
Claire Nana is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, and questions about life purpose. Claire also supports concerns like anger, self-esteem, stress, career shifts, and caregiving burnout.
Her style is direct and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people name what matters most and choose steps they can try between sessions. Claire uses approaches that pay attention to feelings, personal meaning, early life patterns, and trauma recovery.
How Claire works
She combines client-centered work with psychodynamic ideas about how past relationships shape current behavior. Claire also draws on trauma-focused techniques to reduce the hold of painful memories. Existential thinking helps people clarify values and make choices that fit their goals.
Claire has worked with many types of life challenges, including eating and body-image issues, addictions, attachment and blended family concerns, obsessive-compulsive struggles, and prejudice or multicultural stress. She frames problems in everyday terms and helps people build practical coping skills. Outside of therapy, Claire spends time on endurance sports and caring for her rescue horses.
Her personal interests keep her grounded and curious about resilience. People who want straightforward, thoughtful help with big life problems often find her approach respectful and purposeful.
Claire lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Claire works with
The areas below are the ones Claire selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following each person's lead. It helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to sort through feelings and make decisions. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that come from earlier relationships and how they show up now. That kind of work can help with repeating difficulties in relationships, self-esteem, and long-standing behavior patterns. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what fits their goals, needs, and preferences. That conversation may lead to trying one method or blending several approaches as progress unfolds. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual connection, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support more frequent, brief touchpoints between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and to maintain steady contact over time.Start online instead of waiting
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