Claudia Carballal-Benaglio , LPC

Claudia Carballal-Benaglio is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who blends cognitive work with meaning-focused approaches. She offers sessions in English and Spanish and draws on a background that includes coaching, yoga practice, and prior work as an attorney to inform her practical style.

She centers therapy on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life. That cognitive approach helps people gain clarity and find concrete ways to change patterns that cause anxiety, low mood, or relationship strain. She also uses narrative ideas to help people reframe past events and make sense of their life story.

Claudia often supports people facing relationship conflict, family stress, grief, trauma and abuse, or major life transitions. She also addresses concerns such as attention difficulties, addiction, sleep and eating problems, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She welcomes work that touches on abandonment, attachment, communication problems, and blended family challenges.

Sessions focus on practical steps and self-reflection. Clients can expect clear discussion of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and simple strategies to try between meetings. The goal is useful change that fits each person's daily life.

Claudia has three years of experience as an LPC and several additional years as a life coach. That mix shapes a collaborative, action-oriented approach that still allows time for exploring meaning and values. She provides therapy options that can fit different schedules and life demands.

How Claudia's Approaches Work Online

Claudia uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also draws on narrative therapy to help people tell and reframe their life stories, which can bring clarity after trauma or big life changes. These approaches translate well to online formats because they rely on dialogue, reflection, and practical homework.

Choosing an approach is collaborative. Claudia will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques, then tailor sessions to fit those needs. The process often starts with short experiments to see what helps most before committing to a longer plan.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone can be easier when lower bandwidth is needed, short live chat or text messages work for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.