About Char
Char Midkiff is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 14 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She draws on personal experience and a long clinical career in Florida to offer practical support and encouragement. Char aims to help people regain balance and build coping skills they can use every day.
She meets clients where they are and focuses on clear, usable strategies. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thinking, trying small behavior changes, and practicing simple mindfulness tools.
Background and approach
Char also uses solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals and measure progress. Her background includes work while raising a family and a career with the City of Orlando before moving fully into counseling. Char has lived experience with blended-family dynamics, end-of-life caregiving, and surviving cancer twice, which informs her empathetic approach.
That perspective helps when people face complex losses or caregiving stress. People come to Char for help with a wide range of concerns, including addiction, relationship challenges, parenting strain, career transitions, and issues around identity and life purpose. She also supports those coping with trauma, abuse, and intimacy-related struggles.
In sessions she keeps language straightforward and goals practical. The focus is on small, achievable steps that fit daily life. Char works collaboratively to build skills, reduce distress, and move toward clearer priorities and healthier routines.
Approaches that guide online sessions and what they do
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs space to talk through difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change patterns that increase anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods based on goals, daily demands, and what feels comfortable. That collaboration allows adjustments over time so techniques match changing needs and progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling around work, family, and treatment for health issues, while keeping momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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