Claudia Lefort

Claudia Lefort works with people facing multiple challenges, helping them develop practical ways to manage emotions and improve personal, work, and family relationships. When stress, difficult feelings, or conflicts make everyday functioning harder, she starts by encouraging a clear acknowledgement that change is desired and that shifting thinking and behavior is possible.

Her goal is to guide clients toward a clearer, stronger, more positive, and self-reflective view of themselves and their surroundings. With three years of clinical experience, she brings an empathetic, warm, friendly, and honest presence to the therapeutic process.

Claudia practices a solution-focused approach that is well suited to short-term work, crisis intervention, and goal-specific needs. Early sessions focus on hearing, in the client’s own words, what brought them to treatment and what they hope to accomplish. Depending on the focus of treatment, she may suggest reading materials and provide strategies or techniques to practice between sessions.

She encourages clients to be active participants in their care and holds them accountable for their actions as a way to build healthy confidence while navigating problems. Understanding a person’s cultural and environmental background is an essential part of her work, and she consistently acknowledges and validates a client’s culture, background, and authentic self. She is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York.