About Carlotta
Carlotta "Charly" Valdez is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and challenges with self-esteem. Charly speaks English and practices from California, and she accepts international clients.
She takes a straightforward, strengths-focused approach. Charly believes each person knows their story best and already carries strengths they can build on. In sessions she focuses on practical steps and steady support rather than long lectures.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and helps clients try different ways of responding. This can mean practicing new communication skills, looking at how past attachment and abandonment experiences shape current reactions, or working through feelings of guilt, shame, and isolation.
Charly emphasizes small, achievable changes. She helps people clarify values and life purpose, and she offers ways to practice self-love and forgiveness. For those coping with post-traumatic stress or grief, she combines careful pacing with tools to manage overwhelming feelings.
With four years of clinical experience and a California LMFT credential, Charly frames therapy as a collaborative effort. She supports people who want to reduce social anxiety or phobia, rebuild after loss, or strengthen their sense of self. The work is steady, practical, and focused on helping clients move toward a more fulfilling life.
Approaches that help with anxiety and healing online
Two evidence-based approaches often used for stress, anxiety, and trauma are practical skills training and paced trauma-informed work. Practical skills training focuses on teaching calming techniques, breathing and grounding strategies, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. It helps with social anxiety, panic, and daily stress by giving clear tools to use in the moment. Paced trauma-informed work means moving slowly through painful memories while building coping skills first. This approach is useful for people who have experienced abuse, loss, or post-traumatic stress and need careful emotional support.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, what has helped before, and what feels manageable. Together they will choose and adjust methods so the work fits the client's needs and comfort level rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send notes or work between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These formats make it easier to schedule regular work and to keep therapy consistent across distance.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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