About Claudia
Claudia Ortega is a bilingual licensed social worker in Colorado with more than 20 years of experience. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and a CSW and provides therapy in both English and Spanish. Claudia works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach centers on listening first. She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
How Claudia works
Sessions are straightforward and practical, focused on small changes that add up over time. Claudia draws on a mix of methods, including acceptance and commitment ideas, mindfulness practices, and client-centered conversations. She also uses motivational interviewing and psychodynamic thinking when it fits the work.
These approaches help people manage symptoms, clarify values, and change unhelpful patterns. Many clients bring experiences related to attachment, abandonment, codependency, domestic violence, and sexual assault and abuse. Claudia has experience with post-traumatic stress, first responder issues, immigration challenges, and multicultural concerns.
She aims to create a calm, steady space to talk through these difficult topics. Therapy often focuses on learning simple skills to reduce anxiety and increase emotional balance. Claudia supports practical steps for coping, improving relationships with self and others, and recovering from traumatic experiences.
She invites people to take the next step when they feel ready.
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What Claudia works with
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Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How Claudia’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small committed actions toward those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and living with difficult memories by shifting the focus away from fighting feelings and toward meaningful behavior.Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding without judgement. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting and supporting whatever the person brings to the session to help them feel heard and understood.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm the nervous system. Those skills can be useful for stress, trauma symptoms, and strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claudia works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in about what helps and adjusts the plan together rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have conversations that feel like in-person sessions while keeping travel time low. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, notes between sessions, and a flexible way to stay connected during busy weeks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday or a packed schedule.
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