About Charlene
Charlene Sims is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people facing anxiety and stress. She speaks plainly and focuses on what matters most to each person. She encourages practical steps and small changes that add up over time.
Charlene draws on eight years of professional experience working with anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, anger, relationship concerns, and trauma. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful rather than full of jargon. Her approach blends several methods so therapy fits each person. She uses client-centered listening to understand concerns.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical methods and mindfulness tools support emotion regulation and coping during stressful moments. Charlene also works with issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, communication problems, and recovery after abuse.
She pays attention to cultural background and military-related concerns when they come up. Her style is collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Therapy with Charlene can include short-term problem solving or longer work on deeper patterns.
She guides people toward practical skills, clearer goals, and steady progress. If someone wants a direct, empathetic therapist who centers their experience, Charlene aims to provide that support.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities, helping shape goals from their own strengths and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to spot patterns of thinking and replace them with more helpful responses, which can be practiced between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, using concrete exercises and practice work.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and recommend techniques to try. This is a collaborative process and approaches may be combined or adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, homework check-ins, or people who prefer writing. These options help people maintain continuity of care and practice skills in everyday settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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