About Claudette
Claudette Gaynor is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people find steadiness during hard times. She approaches therapy with a calm, practical style and encourages self-acceptance. Sessions are aimed at uncovering limiting beliefs and discovering new ways of living that feel more authentic and manageable.
She combines body-based awareness with talk therapy to help people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body. That somatic element is paired with client-centered listening so people feel heard while they explore change.
Background and approach
Claudette also draws on mindfulness and meditation practices to build everyday habits that reduce reactivity and increase calm. In session, she guides people to identify patterns that no longer serve them and to try small, doable changes. Homework and short exercises are commonly used to strengthen new skills between meetings.
She makes practical connections between thoughts, bodily sensations, and actions so progress is easier to see. Claudette has 19 years of experience as a Florida licensed mental health counselor - LMHC. Her work often focuses on life changes, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles.
She also supports concerns like addiction, parenting stress, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Sessions may include breath-based grounding, mindfulness practice, cognitive tools, and skills to manage strong emotions. People who want a collaborative guide and practical steps to regain balance often find this approach useful.
How Claudette brings somatic and skills-based work online
Claudette frequently blends somatic practices with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered work. Somatic approaches help people notice bodily signals - tension, breath, or posture - and use gentle body awareness to reduce reactivity and feel more grounded. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Client-centered therapy prioritizes listening and creating a supportive space so people can lead the pace and content of change.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then suggest techniques to try. That way the plan can shift over time as what helps becomes clearer.
Online formats make it easier to practice these methods from home. Video calls allow guided breathwork and movement observation, phone sessions work well for check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief skill practice and reminders between meetings. These options offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping therapy accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English