About Claudia
Claudia Leyton-De la Torre is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas who uses a warm, direct approach to help people through hard moments. She keeps conversations straightforward and compassionate so clients can speak honestly and feel heard from the start. Claudia focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and major life changes.
She also helps with self-esteem, grief, intimacy-related concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in both English and Spanish to meet language needs.
Background and approach
Her work blends practical skills with personal reflection. She draws on methods that teach coping tools, communication practices, and ways to notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. This helps people manage daily stress and make clearer choices about relationships and goals.
Claudia pays attention to attachment patterns, family-of-origin issues, blended family challenges, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with body image concerns, guilt and shame, gender dysphoria, immigration issues, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence. Therapy with Claudia is collaborative.
She helps each person set small, useful goals and uses short-term strategies alongside deeper exploration when it feels right. The aim is to help people feel more grounded, speak up more clearly, and move toward the life they want. To begin, interested individuals follow a simple matching process and schedule sessions that fit their routines.
Sessions can include video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what works best.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without fighting them, and then focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. It works well when someone wants concrete tools to change how they react day to day.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claudia collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She blends skill-building with reflective conversation so sessions match practical problems and deeper questions alike.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more nuance or nonverbal cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, daily coaching, or when someone prefers shorter, written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish