Saskia Charles
Practical, family-centered mental health support
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Saskia
Saskia Charles is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people handle stress, anxiety, addiction, mood changes, and family concerns. Her tone is direct and warm, aiming to make overwhelmed parents feel heard and supported from the first conversation.
She has worked in residential settings, in-home care, addiction programs, and outpatient clinics across Florida. That variety shaped her ability to adapt methods to different situations and family needs.
Background and approach
She draws on evidence-based techniques while keeping sessions straightforward and usable for everyday life. Saskia sees many people dealing with trauma and abuse, depressive and bipolar mood concerns, anxiety, and adjustment difficulties. Family dynamics, blended households, parenting stress, and LGBT-related concerns are also common topics in her practice.
She focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions to reduce crisis and build routine. Her therapeutic style blends Client-Centered listening with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when needed. She also uses motivational interviewing and existential ideas to help people clarify values and stay motivated for change.
Sessions aim to identify small, achievable goals and improve communication within families. Saskia invites straightforward conversation about what is working and what is not. She helps people sort priorities, build skills, and track progress.
Parents who want clear, calm guidance for handling family stress often find her steady and direct approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment; it helps people feel accepted and clarifies what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear skill-based tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits and is often useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, which can be helpful for anger, mood instability, and stressful family interactions.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a client’s goals and preferences. Sessions often mix listening, skill practice, and real-life goal setting so the plan matches what a family or parent actually needs.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options allow for flexible scheduling, quick check-ins between longer sessions, and continuity when in-person visits are difficult. Online sessions let parents access licensed professionals without extra travel and keep work on tools and communication consistent over time.
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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