About Charlene
Charlene Esquilin is a licensed clinical social worker with 10 years of experience helping people through stressful and painful life moments. She uses a warm, attentive style to listen and help people make practical changes. Her work focuses on depression, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, and addiction-related concerns.
She centers sessions on the person in front of her and adapts methods to what each individual needs. That can mean using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing strong emotions.
How Charlene works
Mindfulness practices and the Gottman Method are also used when they fit the goals of the person seeking help. Her approach aims to make therapy understandable and usable. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with steady check-ins on progress.
She pays attention to how background and identity shape experiences and brings cultural responsiveness into conversations. Charlene has supported people dealing with parenting strain, intimacy concerns, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and other life transitions. She helps clients build skills to cope, improve relationships, and find clearer direction.
Work with her typically combines talk-based problem solving, skill building, and practical strategies you can use between sessions. She meets people where they are and focuses on concrete steps toward feeling more capable and in control.
Charlene lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Charlene works with
The areas below are the ones Charlene 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
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Charlene commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online work. CBT helps by breaking down how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and it offers tools to change patterns that cause distress. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and communicating more effectively.She also brings a client-centered outlook, focusing on the person’s experience and priorities when deciding which methods to use. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process and will be decided together based on needs, goals, and personal preference. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy with her includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and focused work. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can serve as shorter check-ins, note-taking, or quick support between longer sessions. These options aim to make it easier to attend therapy consistently and to match the format to what works best for the client.
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