Charlotte Gibbons
Compassionate family-focused clinical social worker
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Utah, California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Charlotte
Charlotte Gibbons is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate family and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical concerns parents and family members often bring, such as communication problems, parenting stress, and conflict within blended or adoptive families. Her tone is straightforward and respectful to people seeking help during difficult times.
Her style is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental. Sessions are conversational and focused on real problems.
Background and approach
She listens first, then works with each client to shape clear next steps that fit their life and values. Charlotte uses several therapeutic tools depending on the situation. She draws on client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person in front of her.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and DBT skills to improve emotional regulation and communication. Over twenty years she has supported people facing trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, addictions, and the strains that come with caregiving and first responder roles. She also addresses issues like abandonment, family of origin concerns, and fatherhood questions.
Her experience includes cultural and diversity issues within family systems. Charlotte holds LCSW licensure in California and Utah and practices from Utah. She offers sessions in English and is open to working with international clients through online formats.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online family work
Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. It helps people feel heard and guides the direction of sessions based on their goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress related to family roles.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals and preferences, then suggest methods that fit those needs. Decisions about techniques are collaborative and can change as circumstances evolve.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for busy parents and caregivers, allowing therapy to happen from home or between obligations. They also make it easier for international clients to connect with a licensed professional in Utah. Online work keeps the focus on practical tools, skill building, and clearer communication within families without requiring travel.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Utah, California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Charlotte
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