About Charlar
Charlar Barnes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a decade of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, compassion fatigue, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and self-esteem. Charlar aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
She brings lived experience as an Army veteran and draws on that background when clients raise concerns connected to military life and transition. Charlar is also the author of "Losing Myself, Funding Me: The journey of survival, strength, and the courage to embrace your authentic self."
Background and approach
This work informs her interest in identity, self-love, and recovery after loss. Her sessions are grounded in straightforward listening and practical tools. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, and Solution-Focused Therapy supports short-term goal work when someone wants clear steps forward. Charlar works with a range of life concerns including career choices, body image, multicultural issues, and forgiveness.
People who choose her can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems and set realistic goals. She explains steps clearly and helps clients practice new skills between sessions. Charlar is based in Alabama and conducts therapy in English.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Charlar uses client-centered therapy to guide sessions around what matters most to each person. That means she listens first, follows the client’s priorities, and adapts the pace and topics to the individual's needs. This approach helps when someone needs to sort feelings, regain confidence, or make sense of a difficult life change.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT-style work can be useful for anxiety, stress, and patterns that get in the way of daily functioning. When motivation is unclear, Motivational Interviewing helps uncover personal reasons to change and supports small, achievable steps forward.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what the client wants to focus on.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat sessions can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to see what helps most.
Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist help with?
How would you describe the therapy style?
What is the therapist's background and experience?
Where is the therapist licensed and located?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled for sessions?
What are the steps to begin working together?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Georgia
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.