About Claudia
Claudia Santiago is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people through emotional challenges. She practices in California and offers care in English and Spanish. Her manner is collaborative and affirming, focused on practical steps that fit each person's life.
Claudia uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen deeply and shape goals that feel meaningful. She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
How Claudia works
She also draws on mindfulness and motivational strategies to support steady progress. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem. She also helps people dealing with addiction, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, sleep problems, anger, and coping with life changes.
Relationship and family stress are included among her focus areas, as are issues like abandonment, attachment, and communication problems. Her background includes long-term work with people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, and co-occurring substance issues. Claudia aims to make therapy practical: clients leave sessions with tools they can use between visits.
She encourages small, consistent steps toward clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and stronger daily routines. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability. Sessions can be by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, and the subscription can be canceled at any time.
Claudia lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approach-focused care for online therapy
Claudia uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful relationship and clarify what matters most to each person. That approach emphasizes listening, understanding a client's perspective, and shaping goals together so therapy feels relevant and doable.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. CBT offers concrete exercises and step-by-step practices useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with life changes. Motivational Interviewing supports moments when change feels difficult by helping people find their own reasons and small steps forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claudia collaborates with clients to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they check in on what helps and adjust strategies over time so the plan stays useful.
Online sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth situations, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent progress.
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