Claudio Vargas Silva is an intern marriage and family therapist, experienced speaker and pianist. He does piano concerts and seminars about family, self-esteem, anger management, communication, and conflict management. He graduated in 2010 as a master of science in counseling and he is currently earning a doctor’s degree in general psychology.

Claudio works at the Christian Counseling Centers in San Jose and Morgan Hill, CA. You can contact him for personal therapy or for workshops at companies, churches and schools. He has worked for over 20 years as a minister, speaker and counselor, with native speaking Portuguese, Spanish and English. During the last 12 years he has specialized in families and children conducting workshops and face to face counseling. His messages are listened through the internet and some of them were already listened thousands of times. On youtube only he has been heard more than one hundred thousand times.

Claudio has written the book Master Yourself: Ten Steps to Loving Yourself, Having Good Relationships and Being Successful. He also has recorded many messages on CD and DVD which he offers on his seminars. Claudio has adopted the cognitive behavioral theory as his main approach for his lectures and counseling. Through his lectures and counseling sessions he shows the powerful impact of thoughts over our lives. Our feelings and our mood are a consequence of our thoughts. It’s not as much what happens to us that makes us happy or sad, but our perceptions of what happens. We can’t control people and we can’t control some events, but we can control our thoughts and our reaction.

In this website you will find messages in video, audio, and articles that will help you to accept yourself, have good relationships, and achieve your dreams. You can download these messages for free or you can buy them in CD or DVD. You can also make a donation and help maintain this website. We appreciate your support. Thank you for your interest.

In the crowded field of self-help literature, it takes an exceptional book to stand out from the rest. Master Yourself by Claudio Vargas Silva is just such a book, in more ways than one. What sets this well-written and expertly organized guide apart is the comprehensive self-care approach that Silva-a prolific author and lecturer and himself a survivor of self-defeating depression and low self-esteem-has developed, which practically ensures that anyone can improve his or her self-image and enjoy greater success in life.

The effectiveness of Master Yourself lies in Silva's unique ability to help readers identify and then reverse the negative assessments they have made about themselves. At the core of every human problem is the difficulty of valuing oneself, Silva writes, and of allowing guilt and a victim mentality to define who we are. Nobody, he wisely points out, can humiliate us unless we agree with them.

Learning to value, love and take genuine pride in ourselves is the first important step toward empowerment, Silva states, just as learning to forgive and then believe in ourselves underscores the basis of self-acceptance-one of the most vital aspects of human existence. Once we begin to love ourselves, to see ourselves as important and special, we can begin to overcome feelings of fear, guilt and anger and effectively change the way we deal with ourselves and others.

Short on platitudes and long on practical techniques, Master Yourself presents a straightforward and powerful approach to changing one's life for the better. Taking on the role of a wise and encouraging teacher, Silva, a minister and former chaplain, shows you how to avoid the pitfalls of negative thinking, overcome selfishness and damaging pride, and break the cycles of anger, blame and abuse so that you can master the ability to turn passivity into action and failure into success. Feeling good-about yourself and others-feels wonderful, and Claudio Vargas Silva's Master Yourself will literally guide you along the path of this most rewarding journey.

Review by New York Times best-selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh