Charles Koah
Compassionate counselor focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Charles
Charles Koah is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 30 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical, straightforward help for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, and career or workplace problems. He offers coaching for executives and professionals and attends to issues like intimacy, grief, and coping with life changes.
Charles aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. He adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s situation.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be goal-oriented and conversational so clients can make steady progress. He draws on evidence-based techniques to address symptoms and build everyday skills like sleep routines, stress management, and problem solving. Charles has worked for three decades with adults facing a range of challenges including bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
He also lists focus areas such as LGBTQ concerns, parenting matters, and relationship and intimacy issues. Additional experience includes addiction-related problems, infidelity, and financial or workplace stress. The practice supports multiple ways to connect including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and cost varies by location and therapist availability. To begin, visitors choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s availability. Charles speaks English and accepts international clients.
His Virginia license number is VA LPC 0701001333.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Charles uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s goals. One commonly used approach focuses on building practical skills for managing stress and anxiety, teaching routines and coping strategies that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Another approach targets addictive or compulsive behaviors by identifying triggers and developing step-by-step plans to change patterns and regain control. Both approaches use simple, real-world exercises and conversation rather than abstract theory.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with clients to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions are adjusted over time based on what helps most, and the plan is reviewed regularly so progress is clear and manageable.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for people with busy schedules. Video calls let clients see and hear the therapist in real time, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter, flexible check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit work, family, and other commitments into a regular routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point