Claudia Carballal-Benaglio, LPC

Claudia Carballal-Benaglio is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses cognitive behavioral methods as her main approach. She offers bilingual counseling in English and Spanish and brings experience from roles as a life coach, yoga practitioner, and former attorney. Claudia speaks plainly and helps people sort through relationship conflict, anxiety, and major life crossroads.

She centers sessions on examining thoughts and core beliefs to create clearer options and practical steps. Claudia also uses narrative work to help people make sense of their stories and find meaning after difficult events. This combination aims to reduce overwhelm and improve decision-making in daily life.

Her work often focuses on relationship issues, family dynamics, and trauma, and she supports people coping with grief, stress, or changes in parenting and career paths. She also addresses concerns such as addiction, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and intimacy-related struggles.

Claudia has worked with individuals, couples, and families and has experience in both private practice and organizational mental health settings. She typically sees a range of concerns including abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, blended family challenges, and communication or control problems.

Clients can expect a direct and practical style that combines thought-focused techniques with reflective narrative inquiry. Claudia aims to help people move from feeling stuck to taking small, manageable steps toward the life they want.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy helps explore how early connections influence current relationships. It looks at patterns of closeness and distance and can be useful for intimacy problems, abandonment concerns, and family dynamics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life actions. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it produces concrete strategies and small experiments to try between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean emphasizing thought-focused CBT at first, then adding attachment or narrative elements as trust and clarity grow.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions are delivered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, avoid travel time, and keep momentum between meetings. Some formats also allow shorter check-ins or sessions that don't require being on camera, which can help when scheduling around work or caregiving. Ask about available session formats when you start the matching questionnaire to find what works best for your life.