About Charlotte
Dr. Charlotte Kennedy is a Tennessee psychologist with 40 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She listens carefully and helps people name what’s most pressing.
Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on practical steps that fit everyday life. She often uses client-centered work to follow a person’s priorities and build on their strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques help people calm racing thoughts and return to the present moment. Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-focused. She helps people develop coping skills for grief, trauma, parenting stress, sleep or eating difficulties, and career concerns.
The aim is to create small changes that add up over time. Dr. Kennedy brings four decades of clinical experience to each case.
That experience informs how she tailors tools for things like attachment worries, body image, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. People who work with her can expect clear explanations and practical homework between sessions. Her practice addresses a broad range of life transitions and emotional struggles, including intimacy-related issues, anger, ADHD, and challenges tied to aging or blended families.
She communicates in English and works with people across adult life stages in Tennessee.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Dr. Kennedy commonly blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address anxiety and life stress. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s priorities so goals come from the person rather than the clinician. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then choose or adapt techniques that feel like a good fit. This collaborative process helps shape a plan that is realistic and personally meaningful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video can approximate an office visit when face-to-face interaction matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a check-in during a break is needed. Live chat and text allow for shorter, more frequent touchpoints and can fit into busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid work, caregiving, and life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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