Dr. Charity Rolfes
Calm, experienced support for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LCP
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Charity
Dr. Charity Rolfes brings 25 years of clinical experience to work with stress, anxiety, family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and parenting concerns. She is a Virginia licensed LCP - a Licensed Clinical Psychologist - who focuses on building a respectful, compassionate relationship first.
Her style is warm and steady, aimed at helping people feel safe enough to talk about hard things and take practical steps forward. In sessions she listens closely and meets people where they are.
Background and approach
She helps identify patterns that keep problems going and teaches skills to manage intense emotions and stressful moments. She also explores how past hurts and losses affect present choices and relationships. Her training includes Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Jungian Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy.
She draws from these methods to tailor an approach that fits each person’s needs and goals. Therapy may include skill practice, reflective conversation, and attention to meaning and personal history. Dr.
Rolfes has experience supporting people across diverse backgrounds and identities, including LGBTQIA+ identities and neurodiversity. She emphasizes mutual respect and a non-judgmental atmosphere. Her aim is to help people regain confidence, cope with loss, and rebuild healthier ways of relating.
People who work with her can expect a collaborative process. Together they clarify goals, try practical strategies, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. She invites prospective clients to consider what they want to change and to bring those hopes into the first appointment.
Approaches and practical online therapy options
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful for building trust and addressing self-esteem, identity, and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for regulating strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication when feelings run high.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan collaboratively based on what helps. Clients shape the process and provide feedback so therapy stays practical and meaningful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. These formats allow ongoing skills practice, check-ins between longer sessions, and flexibility for people who prefer different ways of communicating. Licensed professionals can use these tools to support progress while tailoring methods to each person’s needs.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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