About Charity
Dr. Charity Rolfes is a Virginia licensed Clinical Psychologist (LCP) with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
She also addresses parenting strains, career questions, eating and body image issues, and compassion fatigue. Her style centers on a respectful, supportive therapeutic relationship. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through painful memories and confusing feelings.
How Charity works
Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the individual and moving toward realistic, manageable change. Dr. Rolfes draws from several practical therapies.
She uses Client-Centered methods to follow the client's lead and build trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supports emotion regulation and coping skills.
She also brings mindfulness and Jungian ideas into the work when useful. Her background includes long experience with diverse populations across race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, neurodiversity, immigration status, and religious or spiritual traditions. That experience informs a flexible approach that respects each person's identity and history.
In sessions she helps people set clear goals and practice concrete skills between meetings. The aim is steadier mood, clearer relationships, and a stronger sense of self. She invites people to explore goals and build a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
Charity lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Charity works with
The areas below are the ones Charity selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Online therapy approaches and what they do
Dr. Rolfes commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s priorities to build trust and self-understanding. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns. DBT emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and coping with distress. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about concerns, goals, and preferences, then recommend techniques to try. Over time they check what helps and adjust the plan so the work stays relevant and achievable. Online formats can make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from a convenient location. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or no camera is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or clients who prefer writing to speaking. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins between sessions, and different ways to practice skills with therapist support.Start online instead of waiting
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