About Charlene
Charlene Mabins is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem. She aims to make the first step feel manageable and meets people with respect and compassion. Charlene works in Illinois and brings ten years of experience to sessions.
Charlene adapts sessions to each person’s needs and prefers clear, practical conversation. She uses approaches that focus on values, thoughts, feelings, and relationships to help people cope with life changes.
How Charlene works
Discussions often include skill-building and simple strategies to reduce overwhelm. Clients can expect a calm, listening presence that centers their concerns. Charlene pays attention to how stress and compassion fatigue show up in daily life and helps people find small, steady changes.
She also addresses issues like body image, commitment worries, and attachment concerns. Her work covers medical and caregiving challenges such as chronic illness, cancer, and caregiver stress, with attention to how these affect mood and routines. She supports people dealing with abandonment, communication problems, codependency, and other relational strains.
Sessions draw on methods that encourage mindful acceptance, cognitive work on unhelpful thoughts, and emotion-focused dialogue to improve connections and coping. Charlene explains tools plainly and practices them together with the person in session. She tailors pace and techniques to match what each person finds helpful.
Charlene lists 9 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them while accepting difficult feelings. It can help when anxiety, grief, or life changes get in the way of what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical skills to change reactions and behaviors, which is useful for stress and low self-esteem. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on emotions and relationship patterns, helping people understand and shift how they respond to strong feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods collaboratively. That way the plan fits the person, not the other way around.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints, and let people choose what feels most comfortable for them.
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