Anna Claybaugh , LCSW, LICSW

Anna Claybaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of practice. She brings a warm, relaxed style and a direct, compassionate manner to sessions. Anna aims to help people speak their needs, reduce harsh self-talk, and make changes that feel right for them.

She often works with people who struggle to put themselves first, such as caregivers, people pleasers, and highly sensitive people. Anna also has a strong interest in supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and Two-Spirit communities and queer identities. Her focus areas include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, and burnout among healing professionals.

Anna uses approaches that draw on attachment ideas, client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral tools, EMDR, and Jungian perspectives to shape the work. She helps people spot what blocks them, practices skills to cope, and supports them in regaining a sense of agency. She describes her approach as trauma-informed and compassion-centered.

In sessions she mixes practical, brain-based ideas with exploration of meaning and inner patterns. That can mean doing short skills practice, talking through relationship patterns, or processing traumatic memories when it feels right. The pace and focus are adjusted to each person’s goals.

Anna provides services in Washington and speaks English and Spanish. Her listed credentials are LCSW and LICSW. For someone ready to begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

Approach and online options for therapy

Anna frequently blends attachment-based ideas, client-centered work, and cognitive behavioral techniques. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change repeated hurts and expectations. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening deeply and following the person's concerns so they feel heard and supported. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, mood, and many stress-related problems.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals, try different techniques, and adjust methods as needed. Clients and therapist decide together what feels most helpful at each stage of care.

Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can work when a shorter check-in helps. Live chat or text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection, quick check-ins, and practice between sessions. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, pace, and how someone prefers to communicate.