About Charlette
Charlette Forteza is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns. She uses a warm, human-centered style to help clients find clearer direction and kinder self-talk. Her work aims to make day-to-day life feel more manageable and purposeful.
With 17 years of experience, Charlette blends mindfulness practices with evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She guides people through communication problems, intimacy-related issues, and family or parenting stress.
Background and approach
She also addresses attachment concerns, body image, guilt and shame, and the strain of major life changes. Sessions often center on practical tools people can use between meetings. Charlette helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, practice new ways of relating, and develop routines that reduce anxiety.
She encourages small, achievable steps toward better coping and greater self-compassion. Her approach is collaborative. Charlette listens for each person’s values and goals, then adapts techniques to match those priorities.
She sees therapy as a process of learning and practicing skills rather than quick fixes. People working with Charlette typically focus on clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and increasing self-love. She supports those navigating divorce or separation, forgiveness work, and finding life purpose.
Her steady, practical guidance is aimed at lasting change rather than temporary relief.
How Charlette Uses Practical Techniques Online
Charlette integrates mindfulness practices alongside evidence-based techniques to address anxiety and relationship concerns. Mindfulness work teaches simple breathing and grounding exercises to reduce immediate stress and help people notice unhelpful thoughts without reacting to them. Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on identifying thought and behavior patterns, then trying small changes to improve communication and reduce anxiety symptoms.She often pairs these approaches when someone is coping with life transitions, attachment worries, or issues like body image and shame. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process, and she works with each person to decide what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning helps shape the pace and focus of sessions.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to exchange thoughts between sessions and to practice skills in real time. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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