About Charles
Charles McBride is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon with 15 years of experience. He helps people who are stressed, anxious, dealing with substance use, or facing relationship and intimacy challenges. He also supports people handling grief, career shifts, parenting strain, and questions about sexuality.
He has worked in residential substance abuse treatment and in outpatient settings with employee and family assistance programs. That background means he has sat with people through withdrawal, relapse, job-related strain, and trauma after difficult events.
Background and approach
He has also worked with first responders who experienced traumatic events on the job. Charles uses a warm, supportive style and sometimes brings gentle humor into sessions. He treats people with respect no matter where they are starting from.
He sees clients as the experts on their own lives and aims to help them reach practical goals. His methods include client-centered work and cognitive-behavioral approaches that focus on changing thoughts to change behavior. He also uses EMDR for trauma-focused work and solution-focused techniques to build short-term plans.
Treatment plans are tailored to each person’s unique needs. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Charles emphasizes clear, real-world steps you can try between meetings.
He encourages people to notice small changes and build on them over time.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and understood; it helps people clarify their goals and values and decide what changes matter most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving tools to use between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that can reduce the intensity of painful memories by guiding bilateral stimulation alongside recall of the event.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. That choice is collaborative and can be adjusted as work progresses so the plan fits the person, not the other way around.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper discussion is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera isn’t desired. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or staying connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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