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Claudia Young, LCSW

  • Experience15 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Family, and Self esteem
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • LanguagesEnglish and Spanish
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About Claudia

Claudia Young is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and the many life changes that can feel overwhelming.

Background and approach

Based in California, she brings 15 years of clinical experience to her work and aims to support clients as they build healthier patterns, restore connection, and recover from trauma and addiction. Claudia writes and talks about practical strategies that honor each person's pace while encouraging meaningful shifts in daily life.

Her style blends empathy with evidence-based tools, drawing on Internal Family Systems, ACT, attachment-focused work, client-centered practices, and cognitive approaches. She focuses on issues such as family and blended-family dynamics, communication and commitment struggles, parenting and fatherhood concerns, caregiver stress, and intimacy or abandonment wounds.

Sessions emphasize collaborative goal-setting, skills for coping with mood and stress, and integrating personal values into choices. Claudia is licensed as an LCSW in California and offers services in both English and Spanish to reach a broader range of clients.

How Claudia’s Approaches Work Online

Internal Family Systems helps clients notice and dialogue with different inner parts so they can understand conflicts, soften protective responses, and access a calmer core self. This method can be useful for people coping with persistent self-criticism, shame, or internal conflict. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages identifying personal values and learning practical skills to live by those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise, which often supports coping with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating that develop in close relationships and helps people build more supported ways of connecting with partners, family, or caregivers.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work and will be guided collaboratively. Claudia will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then tailor techniques from these frameworks to match each client's needs and pace rather than relying on a single method.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life or to access support from different locations within California. These formats support timely check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and consistent engagement while allowing clients to choose how they prefer to communicate.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Claudia work with?
She addresses a broad set of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting and career challenges, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD-related struggles.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is empathetic and nonjudgmental, combining collaborative exploration with practical, evidence-based techniques to support reflection, growth, and real-life changes.
What background and experience does she bring?
She has 15 years of experience in the mental health field and has worked with diverse client needs across mood, trauma, family, and relationship issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
Claudia is licensed in California as an LCSW with license number CA LCSW 65026 and provides services to clients in that state.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are available in English and Spanish. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Clients may meet through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their needs and availability.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions are provided via a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsSelf esteemDepression

Also works with

AddictionsRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImmigration issuesImpulsivityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSelf-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Gottman MethodJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

15+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English, Spanish