About Charesa
Charesa Alphin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She supports individuals facing parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, and work-related stress. Her approach aims to make talking about hard things feel manageable and clear.
She offers straightforward, person-centered care. Sessions focus on listening first, then building practical steps that fit daily life. She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts, and she applies EMDR when trauma memories are in focus.
Background and approach
Charesa brings ten years of counseling experience to sessions. She has worked with people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, social anxiety, and the impacts of sexual assault and abuse. She also addresses caregiver stress, communication breakdowns, and problems that come up during major life changes.
Her style is collaborative and goal-focused. Clients and Charesa set clear goals together and track progress across sessions. She blends solution-focused tools with narrative methods to help people rewrite difficult stories about themselves.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules. Charesa helps clients choose approaches that match their needs and comfort level. She guides each person toward practical strategies they can use between appointments.
Approaches that fit anxiety and trauma in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting concerns and working together to set goals. This approach helps people who need a calm, supportive place to talk through worries and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking patterns and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method that focuses on distressing memories and the way they affect current reactions. It is often used when past events continue to provoke strong anxiety or trauma responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on goals, needs, and comfort. That process can include mixing strategies so sessions match real life and produce usable coping tools.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access. Video calls allow focused face-to-face work, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging offer quick check-ins and brief coaching between sessions. These options give flexibility for busy schedules and different communication preferences.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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