About Challis
Challis Russell is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and life changes. She offers straightforward support for mood struggles, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Her style is direct and warm, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
She uses methods that focus on the client's goals and strengths. Sessions often include talking through problems, learning simple skills to reduce anxiety, and trying new ways to handle conflict.
How Challis works
This is a hands-on approach where the person and therapist set clear steps to follow between meetings. Challis trained at Johns Hopkins University, earning a master’s degree in clinical counseling. Over five years she has worked with a wide mix of people and concerns, which shaped her flexible way of working.
That experience helps her match tools to the needs a person brings. In sessions she pays attention to how relationships, family history, and everyday habits affect mood and behavior. She also helps with adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and issues like codependency or infidelity.
The work often includes communication practice and building coping routines. People can expect a respectful, steady presence and clear steps for change. Challis frames therapy as teamwork: clients set goals and she offers options to reach them.
She practices in South Carolina and works with English-speaking clients online and across borders.
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What Challis works with
The areas below are the ones Challis selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online counseling
Challis uses client-centered methods that focus on the person's concerns and priorities. This approach centers the session on what matters most to the client and aims to build a trusting working relationship. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches clear skills to manage anxiety, mood, and impulsive reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each client about goals and preferences, try techniques that match those needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This collaborative process helps decide whether more skills training, mindfulness practice, or solution-focused steps are most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, idea practice, or people who prefer typing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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