About Clatoyia
Clatoyia Andrews is a clinician who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. She also supports people facing relationship and family concerns, self-esteem struggles, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
Clatoyia holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in North Carolina and other states; she brings five years of clinical experience to her practice. Her approach is relaxed and down-to-earth.
How Clatoyia works
Sessions focus on practical skills and small steps that fit into daily life. She listens without judgment and highlights each person’s strengths to build clearer ways forward. Clatoyia has worked in a range of settings.
Her background includes individual skill-building for people with serious mental illness, running school-based groups, and providing brief psychotherapy in emergency and phone settings. That variety shapes a flexible, results-oriented style. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, solution-focused strategies, and strengths-based methods to help people handle current problems.
Those tools are used to reduce symptoms, improve coping, and create clearer plans for change. In sessions she aims to meet people where they are and tailor the plan to their needs. The work is collaborative - she helps identify strengths and practical steps.
People can expect a supportive, compassionate space with a clinician who keeps things straightforward and approachable.
What Clatoyia works with
The areas below are the ones Clatoyia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Clatoyia commonly incorporates cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to anxiety and depression. These techniques break concerns into manageable steps and teach practical coping skills.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people learn calmer ways of responding to stress and strong emotions. Mindfulness exercises focus on simple breathing and attention skills that reduce reactivity in the moment.
Additionally, solution-focused strategies are used to identify immediate goals and build short-term plans. These techniques emphasize what is working now and how to expand those small gains.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are often easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief contact between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit care into a busy schedule and maintain continuity of support.
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