- Client-centered care
- Practical coping skills
- Support for self esteem
About Clymie
Clymie Allen is an LCSW with four decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and self esteem struggles. Her style is warm and direct, aiming to build trust quickly so people feel heard and understood.
She brings long experience in community and outpatient settings and has worked in veterans' services at a VA hospital in Los Angeles. That background means she is used to practical, everyday problems that affect relationships, sleep, and daily functioning. She speaks English and practices in California.
Therapy with her blends client-centered conversations with structured techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches. Sessions often involve talking through current problems, identifying patterns, and trying small changes between meetings. She helps people set realistic goals and test what works in real life.
Clymie also addresses grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and challenges tied to adoption, aging, caregiving, and blended families. She pays attention to how life transitions and communication problems affect mood and behavior. Her approach aims to restore routines, improve coping, and rebuild confidence.
Practical matters are part of the work. She uses phone and video as well as messaging to keep therapy fitting into busy schedules. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match goals and timing before scheduling sessions.
She brings long experience in community and outpatient settings and has worked in veterans' services at a VA hospital in Los Angeles. That background means she is used to practical, everyday problems that affect relationships, sleep, and daily functioning. She speaks English and practices in California.
Therapy with her blends client-centered conversations with structured techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches. Sessions often involve talking through current problems, identifying patterns, and trying small changes between meetings. She helps people set realistic goals and test what works in real life.
Clymie also addresses grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and challenges tied to adoption, aging, caregiving, and blended families. She pays attention to how life transitions and communication problems affect mood and behavior. Her approach aims to restore routines, improve coping, and rebuild confidence.
Practical matters are part of the work. She uses phone and video as well as messaging to keep therapy fitting into busy schedules. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match goals and timing before scheduling sessions.