Charlotte Schafer
Calm, practical support for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Charlotte
Charlotte Schafer is an LPC with eight years of clinical experience who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She works with a wide range of concerns including parenting, family issues, bipolar disorder, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, anger, and career stress. Her plain, steady approach aims to make therapy feel understandable and doable for busy parents.
She trained with a Bachelor of Science in Christian counseling and a Master of Arts in professional counseling from Liberty University.
Background and approach
Charlotte completed a residency at Counseling Alliance of Virginia in Charlottesville and later opened a small independent practice in Virginia. She can include Christian-based ideas in sessions when clients want that perspective. Charlotte uses an integrative approach and draws often from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness grounding skills.
In sessions she helps people learn practical skills - managing anxious thoughts, building healthy routines, and practicing present-moment tools. Conversations stay focused and goal-oriented while leaving room for personal values and faith when appropriate. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She listens first, then works with clients to set short-term goals and simple steps to reach them. Parents often appreciate concrete strategies for managing stress and family responsibilities. Outside the room, she emphasizes consistency and small changes.
Therapy typically blends skill practice, problem-solving, and attention to what matters most to each person. The aim is steady progress on the issues that brought someone in.
Therapeutic approaches used in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, which can help with impulsivity, anger, and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and personal preferences. Sessions can include exercises, homework, and values-based planning so clients can try tools between meetings and report back on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home, phone sessions work when video isn't possible, and live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into parenting schedules, work days, and other responsibilities while maintaining a regular rhythm of support.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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