Dr. Clifford Green , LCSW

Dr. Clifford Green is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing addiction, trauma, relationship problems, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and concerns common to LGBTQ people. He practices from Hawaii and brings eight years of clinical experience to his work. He aims to create a straightforward, collaborative space where clients can talk through painful experiences and find practical coping tools.

He uses an individualized approach rather than a single method. Sessions focus on real-life problems and steps a person can take between meetings. He often combines talk therapy with skills practice to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Dr. Green has broad experience with serious mental health challenges and with trauma, including sexual trauma. He also addresses intimacy and sexual concerns, relationship conflict, grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and issues that arise around identity and belonging for LGBTQ people.

His work blends empathy with clear structure. He helps clients build emotional awareness, practice new ways of relating, and learn tools to manage intense feelings or impulses. He also supports people dealing with life changes, career stress, and compassion fatigue.

People meet him for video, phone, chat, or text sessions. He encourages clients to set concrete goals and to check in about what is or isn’t working. The focus is on practical progress and restoring a sense of agency.

Approach and online sessions that fit your life

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape emotional patterns. It helps people understand hurtful cycles and build safer ways of relating when intimacy or trust is difficult.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and choices. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps people find their own solutions to relationship, identity, or mood concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and impulsive responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt techniques together with you. This collaborative process helps pick methods that fit your situation and priorities.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people keep therapy in their routine, fit sessions around work or caregiving, and use the format that feels most manageable.