Claudia Viadro, IFS Therapy in California

(Accepting New Clients)

My Approach

I help people understand themselves better. If we are a good match as far as working together, we will forge a safe path to dig in deep to unchartered territory. I am warm, straightforward, open, and intuitive. I welcome regular feedback and understand pace is not the same for everyone. IFS is an exciting way to work with your system and often feels revelatory. My clients can often begin to experience real shifts in the ways they relate to self and others. 

My Journey and Education

From Art History to Broadcast Communication Arts to Counseling Psychology, it has not been a straight path. There is so much life experience along the way that has only informed and deepened my work. I hold a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, with a Transpersonal Specialization, from JFK University’s Holistic Studies Program. I have been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 2005. I began with a more psychodynamic, attachment based approach, but my work with families and teens in day treatment, residential and school based treatment, required me to look through a systemic lens. I am trained in EMDR. That desire to become more trauma informed in my work eventually led me to IFS.  Internal Family Systems allows me to  bring together a Transpersonal perspective with systems thinking, and the personal bias that self acceptance is necessary for our health and wellbeing. 

About Me

All of my life I have been interested in people. I am naturally curious about what makes people tick, how do we get to these places we inhabit? I find people to be a combination of exquisite fragility and interminable resiliency. My curiosity has taken me to this work.