Claudette Gaynor
Compassionate, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Claudette
Claudette Gaynor is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on practical support for people facing stress, grief, anxiety, depression, addictions, and parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and aims to help clients find clearer ways to manage difficult feelings and daily pressures. Sessions emphasize self-acceptance and building small habits that lead to more ease over time.
Her approach centers on learning which beliefs and habits no longer serve a person and replacing them with healthier patterns.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness and meditation practice alongside talk therapy to add tools clients can use between sessions. Homework and short exercises are a routine part of the work to help new skills stick. Claudette draws from methods such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, existential ideas, and client-centered principles.
Those methods are woven together rather than used in isolation to match each person's needs. The aim is practical change, not just insight. With 19 years of experience and licensure in Florida as LMHC, she brings both clinical training and personal practice to sessions.
She also shares video tutorials to support learning outside appointments. Claudette welcomes English-speaking clients and works with people in Florida and internationally through online formats. Clients can expect a collaborative, straightforward style that combines concrete skills, reflective work, and mindfulness.
The focus is on helping people regain a sense of choice and move toward the life they want to live.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, and then act in ways that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a collaborative, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and supports the client in finding their own solutions.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Claudette will discuss these methods and help decide which mix fits a person's goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to adapt techniques so they feel useful in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats let people use therapy from home, during travel, or across time zones, and make it easier to practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide mindfulness practices, coach through behavioral exercises, and review homework remotely, all aimed at steady, manageable progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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