Claudia Boles
Calm, practical support for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Claudia
Claudia Boles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, parenting concerns, depression, mood shifts, and major life changes. She brings 20 years of experience in hospitals, health care, and mental health settings. Claudia aims to make sessions practical and down-to-earth.
She meets clients where they are and focuses on coping strategies that can be used right away. Claudia earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Southern California and completed her undergraduate work in social sciences and Spanish language there.
Background and approach
Her clinical work has included hospital and community settings and volunteer crisis counseling. This background informs how she balances clinical knowledge with everyday challenges. Her approach pulls from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.
She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques when they fit a person’s goals. In sessions, Claudia focuses on concrete steps, small changes, and skill-building rather than long labels or jargon. Claudia often supports people coping with illness or chronic conditions, bereavement including loss to suicide, compassion fatigue, and stress tied to caregiving or first responder roles.
She also works with issues such as adoption and foster care, autism-related concerns, and postpartum struggles. She values cultural and socioeconomic diversity and brings an integrative view of how life experiences shape behavior. Outside of clinical work she has volunteered as a crisis counselor and enjoys nature and the arts.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Claudia often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process traumatic events and learn tools to reduce the impact of past harm on daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Claudia will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative plan can change as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during times when in-person meetings are not possible. The range of formats allows people to choose the level of real-time interaction that feels most comfortable while still working toward concrete steps and coping skills.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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