Claudia Young
Calm practical support for parents and families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Claudia
Claudia Young is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps parents and families manage stress, parenting challenges, and relationship strain. She speaks English and Spanish and uses straightforward, practical guidance. Parents who feel overwhelmed or stuck can expect calm, clear support that focuses on the next steps.
Claudia works from California and brings 15 years of experience to family and parenting concerns. Her sessions focus on real-life problems like communication breakdowns, blended family stress, and caregiver burnout.
Background and approach
She draws on several evidence-informed methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding. Attachment-based ideas guide work around closeness and trust within family relationships. Claudia describes her style as warm and nonjudgmental.
She aims to meet people where they are and build practical skills for handling anxiety, depression, or trauma reactions. When relevant, she offers techniques for managing emotions, improving boundaries, and repairing communication. She also addresses issues such as addiction, bipolar mood concerns, intimacy-related problems, and career stress as they affect family life.
Specific family-focused topics include blended family challenges, fatherhood issues, and family of origin dynamics. Treatment may include short-term coaching focused on concrete goals or deeper work on attachment and trauma. Claudia trained at California State University, Chico and holds California LCSW 65026.
Her practice includes several formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so parents can fit therapy into busy schedules.
Therapeutic approaches used in online family work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then commit to small actions that match their values. It can help parents manage stress and choose behaviors that support family goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches skills to change unhelpful cycles; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and parenting reactions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how closeness and trust form in relationships and helps family members rebuild connection and feel safer with each other.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That conversation guides whether sessions emphasize skills training, attachment repair, or values-based action, and the plan can change as needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy family schedules. These options make it easier to attend sessions from home, follow up between meetings, and use short check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment-based techniques to these formats so families can keep progress going even when life is hectic.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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- Stop at any point