About Claudia
Claudia Clarke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and low self-esteem. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making sessions feel practical and manageable for busy parents.
Claudia works with clients facing life changes and relationship struggles. She pays attention to issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
How Claudia works
Her practice also addresses struggles with guilt, shame, impulsivity, isolation, and questions about life purpose. Many people come for help with mood disorders, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, and difficulties tied to money or midlife transitions. Claudia also supports men working through identity and role issues, and those affected by narcissistic dynamics.
Sessions focus on understanding patterns and building clearer ways to cope. Her approach is warm and culturally aware. She aims to create a space where clients can tell their story, try new ways of responding, and practice skills that fit their daily life.
Claudia emphasizes small, achievable steps so progress feels real and sustainable. Claudia offers a mix of conversation and practical tools. She helps people develop healthier routines, improve communication, and reduce symptoms that interfere with work and family life.
The goal is steady progress toward more satisfying days and clearer direction.
What Claudia works with
The areas below are the ones Claudia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Claudia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people change unhelpful patterns and manage strong emotions. One common approach she uses teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and mood challenges, such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step behavioral changes that reduce overwhelm and improve daily function. Another approach involves working on attachment and relationship patterns to help people recognize old dynamics and try new ways of connecting and communicating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Claudia will work with each person to identify what feels most useful given their goals, history, and what they want to change. Together they try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time so therapy stays relevant and effective.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls support face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, questions between sessions, or a format that feels less formal. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and caregiving duties.
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