Clare O'Toole

Clare O'Toole is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who helps adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She offers calm, steady support for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about what comes next. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and focuses on each person’s story and goals.

Clare uses mindfulness practices to help people slow down and notice what matters most. She also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools to build practical skills for managing difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections.

Sessions are collaborative and client-centered. Clare aims to help clients identify values, try new responses, and develop more effective coping strategies for things like anger, caregiver stress, or compassion fatigue. She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, grief, infidelity, and communication problems in day-to-day life.

With two decades of experience in California, Clare blends evidence-based techniques with a personal, human approach. She encourages steady, realistic changes rather than quick fixes. Her goal is to help clients feel more grounded, connected, and able to handle life’s ups and downs.

To begin, she guides people through small, manageable steps that fit their life. Clare emphasizes collaboration so clients set the pace and direction of their work together.

How Clare Adapts Mindfulness and ACT Online

Clare draws on Mindfulness Therapy to help people slow down, notice thoughts and bodily reactions, and make clearer choices in daily life. Mindfulness work commonly includes simple attention practices and short exercises to reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients clarify personal values and take actions that match those values, even when difficult feelings are present. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where people want more direction and meaning.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. Clare treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients try different methods to see what fits best with their needs and goals. She adjusts pace and techniques based on feedback and real-world results.

Because specific session formats are not listed in the biography, confirm current options before booking. In practice, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use breathing or grounding exercises between day-to-day tasks while maintaining a regular therapy rhythm.