Claudia Young
Practical, compassionate therapy for relationships and life changes
LCSW California
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Family, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Claudia
Claudia Young is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting strain, and life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and works with individuals who want practical support and clearer direction.
Background and approach
Claudia uses straightforward, compassionate care. Sessions focus on building skills for coping, improving communication, and repairing connection.
She draws on approaches like the Gottman Method to support relationship work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live closer to their values. With 15 years of experience in California, Claudia blends talk therapy with hands-on techniques.
She pays attention to attachment patterns and early family influences to make sense of current problems. Therapy is paced to match each person's needs and goals rather than following a strict script.
Claudia often works with people dealing with trauma and abuse, addiction, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those coping with abandonment, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and communication or commitment problems.
Sessions address both immediate coping and longer-term changes. Practical tools such as cognitive-behavioral strategies and client-centered listening are part of the work.
Claudia aims to help people build routines that reduce overwhelm and increase calm. She encourages small, consistent steps that add up to real change.
Many clients come seeking help around parenting, separation or divorce, and intimacy-related issues. Claudia brings a trauma-informed perspective and focuses on strengths while guiding people toward clearer choices and healthier patterns.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Claudia frequently uses the Gottman Method when couples work on communication and rebuilding connection; it focuses on practical tools for managing conflict and increasing emotional closeness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now, helping people understand and change repeated interaction cycles.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Claudia will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. This collaborative process lets clients test what helps and move toward clearer, more sustainable changes.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for short ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, handle brief coaching moments between sessions, or use a format that feels most comfortable for the work at hand.
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Experience
15+ years
Licensed in
California
Languages
English, Spanish