About Claire
Claire Nana is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Colorado who helps people struggling with addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress. She also supports concerns like self-esteem, grief, eating and body image issues, ADHD, and challenges around career and life purpose.
Background and approach
Claire writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Claire draws on a mix of client-centered, existential, psychodynamic, and trauma-focused approaches.
Sessions tend to focus on understanding what matters to the person now and identifying small changes that reduce distress. She pays attention to patterns from the past that keep causing trouble and helps people experiment with new ways of relating and coping.
Her style is collaborative and respectful. She listens for strengths and what the client already does well, then builds on those resources.
Practical coaching tools are used alongside deeper therapeutic work when helpful for goals like recovery, managing impulses, or improving relationships. Claire has 15 years of clinical experience and brings that background to sessions in Colorado and with international clients.
She has also developed continuing education material for other clinicians and presented at professional gatherings. That experience informs how she explains things and offers clear steps people can try between sessions.
Outside of her clinical work she enjoys endurance activities and working with horses. Her approach emphasizes empowering clients to choose meaningful directions and to take steady steps toward them.
How Claire’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on meeting people where they are, listening closely, and helping them identify their own goals; it suits concerns like low self-esteem, stress, and life transitions. Existential Therapy looks at meaning and direction, helping people clarify values and purpose when they feel stuck or disconnected. Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to recurring patterns that come from earlier relationships, which can be useful for understanding attachment issues, compulsive behaviors, or long-standing relationship problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Claire will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She often blends approaches, checking in together about what's helping and adjusting the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule appointments, continue work during life changes, and stay consistent with therapeutic steps.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Colorado
- Languages
- English