Anna Claybaugh, LCSW, LICSW
Compassionate, practical care for life’s difficult moments
Book with AnnaWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
How Anna works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Licensed in
- Oregon, Washington
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Anna
Anna Claybaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, LICSW) with ten years of experience helping people reclaim energy and connection in their lives. Anna brings a calm, direct presence to sessions and aims to create a welcoming space where clients can speak their needs and make practical changes.
They welcome questions about identity and life transitions and aim to meet people where they are. Anna draws on brain science and several psychotherapy methods to design treatment that fits each person.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a steady, supportive pace and include skill-building for managing stress, anxiety, anger, and relationship strain. Anna often helps people who struggle with people-pleasing, critical self-talk, caregiving burnout, or the emotional work connected to grief and trauma. As a queer practitioner, Anna brings attention to LGBTQIA2S+ concerns and understands how identity and culture shape daily life.
Their style is warm and relaxed while remaining clear and goal-focused. Anna uses an honest, compassion-centered approach so clients can start making tangible shifts quickly. Practical work in sessions includes identifying barriers, learning coping strategies, and practicing new ways to communicate needs.
Anna supports clients as they build confidence and regain momentum toward the life they want. Therapy is collaborative - goals are set together and revised as progress unfolds. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and are available through video, phone, chat, and text formats.
Anna practices in Washington and draws on background helping people with stress, trauma, relationship issues, parenting concerns, and anger management.
What Anna works with
Everything Anna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Anna's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Anna lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. It looks at patterns in closeness and communication and helps people build more supported, reliable ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is practical and skills-focused; it helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more helpful ones to reduce anxiety, anger, and low mood. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, addresses distress from traumatic memories by pairing focused recall with specific eye movement or other bilateral stimulation to reduce the intensity of those memories. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anna will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the concern, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and client decide together which techniques to use. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a workday. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while matching the format to the moment and the task at hand.Questions people ask about Anna
What concerns does Anna commonly address?
Anna helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, caregiver strain, and self-esteem struggles.
What is Anna’s therapeutic style?
The approach is warm, direct, and collaborative. Sessions mix practical skill-building with attention to identity and emotional healing.
How much clinical experience does Anna have?
Anna has ten years of experience as a clinical social worker, focusing on trauma, anxiety, people-pleasing, and life transition work.
What credentials and location are listed?
Anna holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in Washington.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Anna?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.