About Che'
Che' Raquel Ward is a psychologist who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, coaching goals, and ADHD-related concerns. She brings 17 years of clinical experience to sessions and works from a compassionate, affirming stance. Her approach centers on identifying what matters most to each person and creating practical steps toward change.
Ward believes people are the experts on their own lives while she guides the healing process.
Background and approach
She asks for honest feedback and tailors tools to the client's definitions of their problems. That collaborative tone is meant to produce clear, usable strategies that fit daily life. Her practice pays attention to how past events affect current beliefs and behavior.
She helps clients notice how trauma can change trust, self-view, and expectations about others. From there she works with clients to rebuild a sense of safety and forward motion at a pace they control. Sessions address many related concerns such as attachment and abandonment, caregiving stress, body image, communication and commitment issues, and coping after disasters.
She also supports people navigating neurodiversity topics like autism and Asperger syndrome and explores sexual diversity topics including BDSM and kink in a nonjudgmental way. Ward offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She practices in North Carolina as NC Psychologist 6046 and conducts therapy in English.
To begin, she asks clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Che' Raquel Ward uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and understanding how past events affect current life. One common approach she uses helps people recognize how trauma or repeated stress has shaped beliefs and behavior, then builds step-by-step practices to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Another approach emphasizes skills for managing anxiety and stress through breathing, behavioral changes, and gradual exposure to feared situations so people can regain confidence in routine tasks.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Ward works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels workable. She adjusts tools over time and asks for ongoing feedback so therapy stays aligned with the client’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let therapists observe nonverbal cues while keeping the session face-to-face. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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