- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Clea
Clea Weiss is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of practice in New Jersey. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at people who want workable steps and clearer day-to-day routines.
She draws on a mix of talk-based methods and structured techniques. Sessions often include problem solving, communication skills, and exploring emotions behind recurring patterns.
Background and approach
Creative assignments may be offered when they fit a client's goals and interests. Clea frames counseling as a cooperative process. She helps clients set clear goals, then breaks those goals into small, achievable steps.
Meetings are conversational, with attention to how thoughts and actions affect mood and relationships. Her background includes long-term experience with grief, bipolar mood concerns, blended family issues, codependency, infidelity, and separation. She also works with career stress, self-esteem, and social anxiety and phobia.
That range makes it easier to tailor plans for the unique challenges parents and individuals bring. Clients who prefer a mix of emotionally focused work and concrete strategies tend to do well. The focus is on practical change - improving communication, managing strong feelings, and finding routines that reduce daily overwhelm.
Clea aims to make therapy a usable part of everyday life.
What Clea works with
Everything Clea lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Clea helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Clea lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the client's experience and building a trusting working relationship. It helps people who need space to talk honestly and to find their own solutions with a therapist's support.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions influence feelings and behavior. It uses clear steps and exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift emotional patterns that hurt relationships. It can be useful for improving communication and repairing connection after conflict or loss.
Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients and therapist choose together whether to focus on feelings, behavior change, problem-solving, or a mix of approaches.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls let conversations feel like in-person sessions. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, keeping momentum between sessions, or getting support when a written format feels easier. These options make it possible to fit therapy around work, parenting, and daily life.
Questions people ask about Clea
What issues can be addressed here?
Clea helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, and career concerns. She also has experience with bipolar mood concerns, blended family issues, codependency, and communication problems.
What is her therapy style like?
She combines conversational, emotionally focused work with practical strategies. Sessions often include goal-setting, skills practice, and occasional creative assignments when helpful.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 25 years of experience providing psychotherapy to adults and couples in New Jersey.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, listed as NJ LCSW, and practices in New Jersey.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How much does therapy cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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