Claudia Lefort, LCSW

Claudia Lefort is a licensed clinical social worker with three years of practice based in New York. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or big life changes. Claudia works with clients who want practical steps to feel more in control and clearer about next moves.

Claudia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She often introduces short exercises and reading material clients can use between meetings.

Her style is warm and direct. She encourages people to take an active role in treatment and to try small, doable changes. Claudia asks about what brought someone to therapy and what they hope to achieve before planning a path forward.

Claudia pays attention to a person’s cultural background and life context when forming a plan. She holds clients accountable for steps they agree to take and helps them build confidence as they practice new habits.

Practical concerns like parenting strain, caregiver stress, career uncertainty, addiction, and relationship issues are part of her focus list. She also supports people working on self-esteem, life purpose, and self-love. Sessions aim to produce strategies that fit daily life and feel manageable.

Claudia offers phone sessions, video calls, live chat, and text messaging. People who try this approach can expect straightforward, step-by-step work toward clear goals.

How targeted approaches translate online

Claudia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT often includes practical exercises and short experiments to change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood.

She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy, which teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. Mindfulness can be useful for managing stress, cravings, or moments of overwhelm.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Claudia will discuss goals, preferences, and how you respond to different techniques. She frames therapy as a collaboration and adjusts plans as progress is made.

Online formats let people fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls are good for a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for short check-ins or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to use therapy tools in real time and between sessions, and they support consistent, ongoing progress.