About Claudia
Claudia Richards, LICSW, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. She draws on 30 years of experience to listen carefully and work with each person’s goals. Her style is direct and compassionate, with simple tools you can try between sessions.
Claudia uses practical methods to address anxiety, depression, ADHD concerns, relationship struggles, and problems at work. She often combines skills training with conversations about how past experiences shape present reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small changes that make daily life easier. Her work is guided by client-centered care, so people set the pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are taught for emotion regulation and handling intense moments. Claudia also brings attention to attachment and communication patterns that affect relationships and parenting. She helps people untangle issues like abandonment, codependency, and blended family stress in plain language.
For those facing addiction, grief, career shifts, or compassion fatigue, she offers steady guidance and goal-focused support. Sessions are tailored to daily life and concrete challenges. Claudia aims to teach coping strategies you can use right away and to help build routines that stick.
Her practice in the District of Columbia centers on respectful, practical support for change.
How Claudia’s Approaches Work Online
Claudia uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful working relationship where you set goals and pace. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to you, and helping you feel understood so change feels possible.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches practical tools to test new ways of thinking and behaving, useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Claudia collaborates with each person to decide which methods will best match their needs, goals, and daily routines. She adapts techniques over time based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or travel is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill reminders, or when a shorter, written exchange fits a schedule. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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