About Charles
Charles Foxwell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California with four years of professional experience. He focuses on stress and anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and LGBT-related issues. He emphasizes practical steps and strengths clients already have.
Charles writes plainly and aims to make the first step feel doable for people who are nervous about starting therapy. He sees therapy as a collaborative process where the client is the expert on their life.
Background and approach
Sessions often begin with clear, manageable goals and small exercises to practice between meetings. Charles pays attention to how mood, relationships, and daily habits interact, and he helps people notice patterns that get in the way of feeling better. His background in social work shapes a practical approach to problems like grief, trauma, eating difficulties, and addiction.
He draws on methods shown to help people manage strong emotions and reduce distress. The focus is on real-world strategies that can be used outside sessions. Charles also addresses life transitions, caregiver stress, attachment concerns, and issues around identity and gender.
He supports people working through guilt, shame, isolation, or financial stress with straightforward conversation and problem-solving. He encourages steps that fit each person’s pace and situation. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely in formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
He expects therapy to be a paced, practical effort toward clearer thinking and steadier steps forward.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Charles uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on emotion regulation and behavior change. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety, stress, and mood swings; these tools can include breathing and grounding techniques, activity planning, and brief behavioral experiments. Another approach centers on exploring identity and attachment concerns, helping people understand patterns in relationships and how those patterns affect current feelings and choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try options that fit your needs. Together you’ll choose methods and pace that feel doable, then adjust based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit a short check-in during a break, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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