Clymie Allen, LCSW

Clymie Allen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four decades of clinical experience, including extensive work with veterans and their families at the VA hospital in Los Angeles. She earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles and has provided care across outpatient community settings for adults, children, adolescents, and older adults.

Allen brings a compassionate, empathetic, and solution-oriented approach to therapy, focusing on building strong rapport and supporting clients through change. Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, family and LGBT matters, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and coping with life transitions.

She also works with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, aging and geriatric concerns, antisocial personality features, attachment difficulties, blended family dynamics, cancer-related adjustment, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and communication problems, control issues, disaster-related coping, divorce and separation, and domestic violence.

Clinically, Allen integrates client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and existential therapy to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. As an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker qualified to provide clinical mental health services - she offers therapy through messaging, phone, and video formats to accommodate different preferences and schedules.