- Client-centered
- Bilingual
- Trauma-informed
About Claudia
Claudia Santiago is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 12 years of experience helping people through tough emotional times. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and codependency. Claudia offers sessions in English and Spanish and aims for a respectful, culturally aware approach.
Her work is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then helps clients name patterns that keep causing pain. Sessions often move from understanding to simple tools for coping and clearer communication. Claudia uses approaches that encourage self-awareness and gradual change.
People bring many concerns to her practice, including grief, parenting strain, caregiving stress, relationship and communication problems, sleeping difficulties, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses attachment and abandonment issues, body image, dissociation, and co-occurring substance concerns. Claudia helps people sort priorities and set manageable goals.
Her methods are practical and evidence-based. She draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and relationship-focused tools. These approaches guide skill-building, emotion regulation, and improved interactions with others.
Claudia asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin. She supports people who want clearer boundaries, healthier relationships, and steadier moods. The tone in sessions is warm, nonjudgmental, and focused on actionable steps.
How Claudia’s approaches fit online work
Claudia uses client-centered therapy to prioritize each person's experience and goals, helping them feel heard and guiding conversations toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claudia collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their needs and preferences. She adjusts pacing and tools based on what is helpful and what goals the client sets, so therapy stays practical and personalized.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know how she’s offering care. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time so clients can use breaks more efficiently. Licensed professionals can still use mindful exercises, thought record work, and communication practice effectively in remote sessions when those formats are available.
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Experience
12+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Claudia often help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, addictions, codependency, relationship and communication problems, sleeping issues, parenting strain, bipolar feelings, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and affirming. Sessions focus on listening, identifying patterns, and developing practical tools for change.
What kind of experience does she bring?
Claudia has 12 years of experience supporting people through complex emotional and relational challenges.
Where is Claudia licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with Claudia?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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