Charlene Smith
Calm practical support for parents and youth
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Charlene
Charlene Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who practices in Georgia. She holds a Masters of Arts in Counseling and brings three years of clinical experience to her work. Charlene aims to make counseling approachable and straightforward for worried parents and young people.
She keeps sessions practical and focused on what matters now. Charlene often works with stress, anxiety, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and problems with anger.
Background and approach
She also addresses family and relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, and help adjusting to life changes. Her practice includes additional concerns like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and feelings of isolation. Her main style centers on Client-Centered Therapy, which means she builds sessions around each person’s experience and priorities.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy are other tools she draws on when helpful. Charlene’s background includes work in community settings, nonprofit shelters, detention or secured facilities, health clinics, and both inpatient and outpatient programs.
That range has shaped a calm, direct approach to crisis intervention, case management, and ongoing therapy. She emphasizes being heard and understood as a first step toward change. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Parents and young people who want clear, practical steps and a warm listening presence may find her approach useful.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person in front of her. Charlene uses this to create a space where parents and young people feel heard and can name what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She uses CBT to help people find small, concrete changes that reduce stress and improve daily coping.Picking the right approach is a shared task. Charlene talks with each person about their goals and preferences, and then together they choose methods that fit. She adapts tools over time, balancing talk, practical exercises, and short-term goals to match what the client needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work around busy family schedules. Sessions are available by video call or phone, and shorter check-ins can happen through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to keep momentum, follow up between sessions, and get support without long travel or missed time from daily routines.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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