Christy Clavio, LCSW

Christy Clavio is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people recover balance after addiction, cope with anxiety and depression, and manage stress. Her work centers on helping clients build self-awareness, self-compassion, and a stronger sense of identity.

Christy blends mind-body ideas with talk-based therapy. She uses strength-based methods so people can align thoughts, feelings, and actions. That approach aims to help clients feel more in control and improve daily functioning and relationships.

Her background includes work with a broad range of concerns. These include trauma and abuse, grief and loss, sleep and eating struggles, parenting stress, career changes, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also brings experience from recovery education settings and school-based therapy.

Christy integrates practical tools such as relaxation and meditation, mindfulness, and expressive arts into sessions. She also uses techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches and trauma-informed care to address patterns that keep people stuck. Sessions may include activities that focus on the body as well as the mind.

She teaches continuing education for other licensed professionals and has led programs on healing trauma in the body and mindfulness through music. People looking for help with addiction, coping with life changes, or building healthier routines may find her approach grounded and collaborative.

How mind-body approaches translate to online care

Christy often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thinking and build different habits. This approach breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, and addiction-related triggers.

She also draws on mindfulness and relaxation practices, teaching brief exercises for breathing, grounding, and stress reduction. These techniques can help with sleep, anger, and craving management by giving simple, repeatable tools to use between sessions.

Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try techniques that fit those needs. If something doesn’t help, adjustments are made together until a workable plan emerges.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online care can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week and reduce travel time. It also allows for flexible check-ins and practicing strategies in everyday settings, which many people find helpful when working on addiction, stress, or sleep problems.