About Christy
Christy Clavio is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina. She brings ten years of clinical experience and a focus on whole-person wellness to sessions. Christy centers her work on helping people build self-awareness, self-compassion, and stronger daily routines.
She uses practical mind-body strategies to help people with stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Sessions often include breathing, grounding, and simple movement practices alongside talk therapy. Christy also supports people facing grief, addiction recovery, sleep difficulties, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in school settings, recovery education, and trauma-focused programs. That experience shaped how she adapts tools for different ages and life stages. Christy emphasizes creativity and sensitivity when tailoring support to someone’s needs.
In sessions she leans on strength-based methods and evidence-based techniques to align thoughts, feelings, and actions. She may use mindfulness practices, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and skills drawn from trauma-informed care. The aim is practical change - better coping, clearer priorities, and improved daily functioning.
Christy also brings a range of expressive and somatic methods to therapy. These include music and movement elements, guided relaxation, and other ways to reconnect with the body. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where people regain control and move toward well-being.
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Christy commonly uses mindfulness-based practices to help people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment; this can reduce reactivity and help with anxiety, sleep problems, and stress. She also draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical behavior changes for mood, ADHD-related struggles, and coping with life transitions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. If something isn't helpful, they adjust the plan collaboratively to find a better fit.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for longer sessions and more interactive work, while phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are convenient for shorter check-ins, skill reinforcement, and flexible communication between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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