About Charnell
Charnell Benjamin-Carter is a licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, or relationship strain. Charnell writes and talks plainly, and she aims to help people take practical steps toward feeling steadier and more in control.
Charnell trained at Nova Southeastern University and completed an internship at Hyde Park Counseling Center, where she worked in an inpatient residential setting focused on eating disorders and substance abuse.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma and addiction, and she brings that experience into everyday sessions. Her approach blends several methods to match what each person needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practices to help people focus on values and present-moment coping. Sessions often include straightforward tools and homework people can use between meetings. Charnell also integrates emotion-focused techniques to help people understand difficult feelings and improve communication patterns.
She describes some recovery work using 12 Step principles alongside insight into addiction as a disease. Charnell is licensed in Florida as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She offers services in English and accepts international clients when appropriate.
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Approaches that guide online care
Charnell commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thought patterns and behaviors that worsen anxiety and stress, then practices new responses that reduce their impact. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions toward them, even when uncomfortable emotions are present.She treats approach selection as a team effort. Early sessions review your goals, current struggles, and what methods feel most useful. From there she recommends techniques to try and checks in regularly to adjust the plan based on how things are going.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and guided exercises. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited or a speaker-only check-in fits a schedule. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework feedback, and steady encouragement between sessions. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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