CLAUDIA ULWELLING, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for life challenges
About CLAUDIA
CLAUDIA ULWELLING is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and trauma. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Background and approach
Claudia encourages clients to arrive ready to reflect and try new ways of coping. Claudia earned a master’s degree in psychology and holds a California LMFT credential.
She draws on eight years of clinical experience to tailor support to each person’s needs. She emphasizes strengths and practical solutions over lengthy labels.
Her style is client-centered and solution-focused. That means sessions start from the client’s goals and priorities.
Claudia listens for what’s working, then helps people build on those strengths to manage symptoms and make concrete changes. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help reduce stress and improve emotional regulation. Narrative tools are used to reframe difficult stories and open new possibilities.
Claudia prefers a collaborative process. She works together with clients to set realistic goals and track progress.
Sessions tend to be practical, with take-home ideas people can try between meetings. Her approach fits people looking for clear steps, compassionate listening, and flexible methods.
Claudia aims to make therapy understandable and useful, especially for those juggling busy family and life demands.
How Claudia Uses Approaches in Online Therapy
Claudia offers cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered work in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical tools to change them, which can help with anxiety, stress, and anger. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building on a person’s strengths to help them set and reach goals.She also brings mindfulness into remote sessions to help people notice breathing, bodily tension, and emotional states. Mindfulness practices can reduce reactivity and improve calm during stressful moments. Claudia treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process; she will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Together they check what works and adjust plans as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins, journaling-style reflection, or when a shorter touchpoint is needed during a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing family, work, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English