Clarita Requena-Layton

Clarita Requena-Layton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alaska with 7 years of experience. She works with people facing addictions, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, depression, and major life changes. Clarita often helps clients who are questioning purpose, feeling isolated, or struggling with workplace and social anxiety issues.

She approaches sessions as a practical partnership. Clarita treats the client as the expert on their own life and looks for existing strengths to build on. Conversations focus on concrete steps and decisions, not abstract theories. Expect clear, goal-oriented talk about next actions and coping strategies.

Sessions often look at patterns that keep problems repeating. Clarita helps people notice control issues, communication breakdowns, and impulses that lead to regret. She also addresses feelings like guilt, shame, and abandonment by naming them and finding manageable responses.

For people facing divorce, grief, or big job changes, she breaks down overwhelming choices into smaller moves. For trauma and post-traumatic stress, Clarita works to reduce distressing symptoms and improve daily functioning through steady, paced work. For addictions, she focuses on practical planning and relapse prevention skills.

People can expect an approach that aims for clarity about what matters next. To begin, Clarita asks about current struggles, what has been tried, and what the client wants to change. That information guides early steps and short-term goals.

Evidence-based approaches and online care

Clarita uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear skills and measurable change. One common approach is trauma-informed work that helps reduce distressing reactions and improves daily functioning after abuse or traumatic events. This typically involves paced coping skills and strategies to lessen symptom impact. Another frequent focus is behavioral planning for addictions and impulsivity, which breaks goals into specific actions, relapse prevention steps, and routine changes to support safer choices.

Choosing the right approach is part of the first sessions. She will work collaboratively to identify which techniques fit the client's goals, preferences, and current challenges. That process may involve trying short experiments and adjusting methods based on what helps most.

Confirm the session formats before booking, since the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, or avoid travel time. It can also let someone choose audio-only work when they prefer not to be on camera, or plan sessions around evenings and breaks. Licensed professionals tailor pacing and tasks so therapy fits into everyday life while focusing on the client's priorities.