About Claudia
Claudia Mayes is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical so parents and professionals can get tools they can use right away. Claudia encourages clients to notice strengths they already have and build on them.
Claudia has about 15 years of experience working in the United States and Europe. She often draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different, healthier responses.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment approaches to help people clarify values and take small steps toward a more meaningful life. Sessions include mindfulness skills and emotion regulation strategies drawn from dialectical behavior therapy when stress or strong emotions get in the way.
Claudia offers help with relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, career stress, and issues like body image, codependency, and sleep problems. She works with people facing first responder strain, blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and questions about life purpose. Claudia speaks English and German and uses language to make sure goals and steps are clear.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She asks plain questions, listens closely, and helps clients try small experiments between sessions. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Claudia aims to make the process easier to manage.
How Claudia’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps even when feelings are difficult. It focuses on values and practical actions rather than getting stuck on perfect solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and tests new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety or low mood. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Claudia will talk with clients about their goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan as needs change. She aims to match methods to the person rather than forcing a single style. Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can fit into work breaks or be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for quick check-ins or when a shorter, written format feels better. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to practice skills between meetings.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English, German