Clare Albright

Clare Albright builds her practice around a straightforward conviction: therapy should feel like a working partnership, not a clinical procedure. The Lake Forest-based psychologist offers individual counseling, couples work, and coaching with a style her clients often describe as warm and grounded — focused less on abstract insight and more on skills that transfer directly into daily life. For clients who want it, she integrates Christian faith into the therapeutic process, drawing on her background in biblical studies at Wheaton College, graduate work at Talbot Theological Seminary, and a doctorate in Christian counseling from Biola University.

Dr. Albright works with adults and couples navigating anxiety, trauma, and the particular strain of relationships that have become controlling, confusing, or emotionally exhausting. Anxiety is a strong focus of her practice — including the kind that spills out of ordinary moments, like the habit of checking a phone late at night and finding the mind too activated to settle. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR alongside Brainspotting to help clients process difficult memories and quiet thought patterns that have stopped serving them.

Alongside trauma recovery and anxiety treatment, she addresses grief, boundary-setting, codependency, forgiveness, and the aftermath of narcissistic or manipulative relationships. Online sessions are available to clients throughout California.