Anna Claybaugh
Compassionate, direct therapy for clearer connections
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Anna
Anna Claybaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience. Anna uses plain, direct conversation to help clients notice what is getting in the way of feeling connected and authentic. Sessions aim to build practical skills, ease critical self-talk, and support people in speaking their needs.
Anna is a queer clinician and offers therapy in English and Spanish in Washington. Anna often works with people who struggle to prioritize themselves, including those in caregiving or healing roles and people who identify as highly sensitive or people-pleasers.
Background and approach
She brings a warm, relaxed presence and a straightforward style that many find welcoming. Therapy includes identifying blocks, learning coping tools, and practicing new ways of relating to oneself and others. Her training spans several evidence-based methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Attachment-Based approaches.
Anna blends brain science with psychotherapeutic techniques to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. She frames work from a trauma-informed, decolonized, compassion-centered perspective. When appropriate, Anna recommends other supports for people with major depression or active suicidal thoughts, as noted in her practice guidance.
She has additional training in Accelerated Resolution Therapy and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Anna earned a Master of Social Work from New York University and holds OR LCSW L7813 and WA LICSW LW 61466451. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy workflow.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Anna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that get in the way of daily life.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early relationships shape expectations today. That work helps people understand patterns in relationships and practice new ways of connecting and asking for needs to be met.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Anna discusses goals and preferences with each person and mixes methods to fit what feels most useful. The process is collaborative - clients and therapist decide what to try and adjust as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer different ways of communicating. Remote sessions make it easier to keep continuity of care and to practice skills between meetings.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
Talk to Anna
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- Stop at any point