About Claudia
Claudia Van Porter is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship concerns, and trauma. She practices in New Jersey and offers care focused on the individual needs of each person she sees. Claudia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide practical change and emotional healing.
She works with people facing attachment wounds, abandonment pain, and the fallout of divorce or separation.
How Claudia works
Claudia also supports those dealing with grief, hospice and end-of-life issues, cancer-related distress, and the effects of domestic violence. Her practice includes attention to challenges such as codependency, guilt and shame, dissociation, and isolation. Claudia adapts her approach for people who are neurodivergent or have intellectual disability, and she is experienced supporting those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
She aims to meet each person where they are and to shape sessions around their communication needs and life circumstances. Her style is practical and straightforward. Sessions focus on clearer coping strategies, repairing relationship patterns when possible, and building self-esteem step by step.
Claudia helps people identify small, manageable changes that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. She offers several online session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a brief matching questionnaire and schedules according to clinician availability.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches work in online care
Claudia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and understanding relationship patterns. One common approach helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; it teaches coping tools for anxiety, depression, and stress and is useful when daily routines feel overwhelming. Another approach centers on attachment and relationship dynamics, helping people recognize repeated patterns from past relationships and develop different ways of relating in present connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claudia will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, values, and what feels most useful in sessions. She adjusts strategies over time based on progress and feedback so care stays focused and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not desired. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, follow-up between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options create flexibility for scheduling and for fitting therapy into a busy life.
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