Claudia Santiago
Collaborative LCSW helping with stress and relationships
LCSW California
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Claudia
Claudia Santiago is an LCSW who uses a collaborative, client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She combines practical skills with warmth to guide clients toward clearer thinking and steadier emotion.
Background and approach
Claudia has worked in California for over 12 years. She helps people who are coping with grief, addictions, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
Her practice also addresses self-esteem, sleep problems, anger, and the challenges that come with chronic illness or caregiving stress. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to break unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills.
Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus. The Gottman Method informs how she views relationship patterns and communication, when that is relevant to a person's goals.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. Claudia works in both English and Spanish and aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
Her work pays attention to attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency, body image, and identity-related stress. People who want concrete tools alongside emotional support may find her approach useful.
She helps clients set modest, achievable steps and track small changes over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Claudia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new ways of reacting to stress and mood problems. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleeping issues, and many day-to-day struggles because it breaks problems into clear steps and skill practices.She also works from a Client-Centered perspective, which means sessions focus on the person's experience and priorities. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions. The Gottman Method ideas she draws from offer practical ways to notice communication patterns and improve interaction when relationship concerns are part of the work.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Claudia will talk with each person about goals, try strategies together, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients take part in choosing techniques and tracking progress so therapy stays aligned with their needs.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, and quick problem-solving between longer sessions.
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Experience
12+ years
Licensed in
California
Languages
English, Spanish