About Charles
Charles Michel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of experience. He focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people dealing with stress, mood problems, relationship strain, and life changes. He aims for a warm, collaborative tone in sessions so people can speak honestly and be heard.
Charles has long worked with mood disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety. He also supports people facing ADHD, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy-related concerns.
How Charles works
He helps with everyday strains too, including parenting stress, career changes, sleep and eating issues, and self-esteem struggles. His approach centers on listening first and tailoring methods to each person. He uses client-centered work to put the person’s experience at the center.
He also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills for emotion regulation when needed. Charles has additional experience with adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and multicultural concerns. He has supported people dealing with obsessive behaviors, phobias, postpartum depression, and non-monogamous relationship challenges.
His broad background helps him adapt to many different concerns. Sessions are offered in English and take place with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Charles works with people in Indiana and brings a steady, experienced presence to meetings.
He aims to help people find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Charles lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Charles works with
The areas below are the ones Charles selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the person's experience at the center. The therapist listens closely and follows the client's pace to help people feel understood and make their own changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers practical tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal skills when intense emotions get in the way.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean trying a mix of approaches and adjusting over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or text work well for shorter updates or when typing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and find formats that feel comfortable.
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