About Charles
Charles Michel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of experience helping people work through anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. He works with individuals on everyday pressures like relationships, parenting, career strain, and self-esteem. His approach is warm, collaborative, and personal.
He spent decades in independent practice supporting people with serious mood and clinical concerns alongside common life stressors. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that make day-to-day life more manageable.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and paced to fit what each person needs. Charles uses several well-known therapy styles to match what clients prefer and what their issues demand. He draws on client-centered methods to build a trusting relationship first.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for regulating strong emotions. People come for help with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep and eating issues, intimacy and sexual concerns, and career transitions. He also supports those facing adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, multicultural concerns, and coping after disasters.
Sessions are conducted in English and held with his Indiana practice. Charles describes his role as a partner in the work - listening, reflecting, and proposing practical strategies. He aims to help people find clearer choices and small changes that add up to real relief.
Approach and online options that fit your life
The practice combines client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to meet different needs. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. Together they set clear, practical goals and adjust techniques as progress or needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone visits can be useful when internet bandwidth is limited or a flexible check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are practical for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options aim to make regular sessions more accessible and to let people choose what works best for their routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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