Clare Grey , LISW

Clare Grey is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 18 years of clinical experience. She has worked in hospitals and outpatient settings and has supported people through medical and mental health challenges. Clare focuses on helping individuals manage anxiety, depression, stress, and life changes.

She draws on practical, goal-focused methods in sessions. Clare uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions.

Clare has worked with people across adulthood, including younger adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. Her background includes hospital work with oncology, psychiatry, trauma, and chronic illness, and experience in women’s health settings. That mix informs how she approaches medical and emotional concerns together.

In sessions she keeps language plain and action-oriented. People can expect to talk through current problems, practice new skills, and set small, realistic goals. She also addresses issues such as caregiving stress, grief, addiction, and challenges around family relationships.

Clare offers support for practical concerns like career stress, parenting strain, and caregiver burden, as well as deeper issues like trauma, isolation, and life purpose. Her aim is to help people build tools they can use between sessions and move toward clearer next steps.

How therapeutic approaches translate online

Attachment-based ideas help people see how early and current relationships shape reactions and expectations. Online work uses conversation and focused reflection to map those patterns and try small changes in how someone relates to others or themselves. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual sessions clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking, test new perspectives, and practice behavioral experiments between meetings. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness; these exercises can be coached live and used as short daily tools.

Choosing the best approach is a joint process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they adapt methods as progress unfolds so work stays practical and relevant to the person’s life.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when that helps building rapport or doing skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow for short check-ins, quick skill coaching, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical schedules while still getting consistent support from a licensed professional.