Claudia Carballal-Benaglio
Calm, practical counseling for family concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Claudia
Claudia Carballal-Benaglio is a licensed professional counselor who centers her work on clear, practical approaches. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of thinking. Claudia speaks English and Spanish and brings prior experience as an attorney, a life coach, and a yoga practitioner to her sessions.
She blends direct problem-solving with attention to life meaning to meet different needs. Claudia often helps people who feel stuck at a crossroads.
Background and approach
She sees clients dealing with relationship conflict, difficult family dynamics, anxiety, anger, grief, and trauma. She also supports those facing changes in parenting, career, or identity and people navigating addiction, mood concerns, or attention challenges. Her style is conversational and practical.
Sessions typically focus on identifying patterns, testing small changes, and telling or reframing personal stories to make sense of experience. Claudia uses attachment ideas to look at how close relationships shape reactions and choices. With three years as an LPC - licensed professional counselor - she combines short-term skills work with deeper reflection.
Claudia blends cognitive behavioral exercises, narrative work, and mindfulness practices based on what the person needs. She aims to help clients leave sessions with clearer next steps. Claudia offers online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She works from Texas and communicates in both English and Spanish.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Claudia often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioral changes. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and practical problems where new skills can reduce distress.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how close relationships affect emotions and behavior. That perspective helps when family patterns, trust, or communication are part of the issue. Narrative therapy is another tool she uses to help people rewrite how they understand past events and current identity, which can ease feelings of emptiness or stuckness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. Claudia will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then try techniques that fit those goals. The plan can change as needs shift, with a mix of short-term skills and deeper exploration.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, maintain continuity during transitions, and use brief check-ins or longer conversations as needed.
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.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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