About Charlene
Charlene Sims greets people with a calm, straightforward style. She focuses on helping individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship concerns, trauma, grief, and self-esteem struggles. Charlene emphasizes personal strengths and partners with each person to set practical goals.
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. Charlene draws on client-centered work to make sessions feel collaborative and respectful. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
How Charlene works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered for emotion regulation and managing intense reactions. Mindfulness and solution-focused methods help people find relief and build skills that fit day-to-day life. Her approach is plain and goal-oriented.
Sessions often include short, doable homework and skill practice between meetings. She helps people break big problems into smaller steps and track progress together. Charlene has eight years of clinical experience.
That time includes working with trauma, panic, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and multicultural concerns. She also supports those coping with abandonment, attachment struggles, body image, and issues related to veterans and armed forces. Practical needs are part of planning care.
Charlene offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules. She asks new clients to complete a brief match questionnaire before scheduling so therapy can begin in a focused way.
Charlene lists 6 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
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Charlene’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person as the expert on their own life. Online sessions let Charlene follow the client’s lead while offering feedback, goal-setting, and empathic reflection to help people make sense of challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is practical and action-oriented. In video or phone sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and track results between meetings to reduce anxiety and depression.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Skills work can be taught during a session and practiced afterward using chat or text to reinforce learning.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Charlene collaborates with each person to choose methods that suit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts strategies based on what is working and what feels manageable for the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to get brief support between sessions or practice skills in the moment. Together these formats help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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