About Gesina
Gesina Charles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Haitian Creole and aims to make first steps feel less overwhelming. Conversations are practical and down-to-earth from the first session.
She focuses on problems like anger, low self-esteem, depression, and addictions. She also supports people coping with life changes, grief, loneliness, and social anxiety. Communication difficulties, feelings of emptiness, and women's issues are among the concerns she commonly addresses.
Background and approach
Sessions begin by listening closely to what matters most to the client. Gesina adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation. She uses clear goals and tools that people can try between sessions.
Her work draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside client-centered listening. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolbox to help with motivation and stress management. With four years of professional experience, she aims to create a respectful, sensitive space for people to talk things through.
The tone is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she acknowledges that courage when people begin therapy.
How common therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as an individual. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they hear, and helps people clarify their goals and values. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings connect. Sessions include practical strategies for changing unhelpful thoughts and testing out new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, stress, and low mood by teaching specific tools to use day to day.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It emphasizes mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. People who struggle with intense reactions or relationship conflicts often find these skills useful.
Finding the right approach is part of beginning therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or blend methods based on the client's goals and preferences. That means checking in about what helps and adjusting the plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole
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