About Charmaine
Charmaine Dees is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing compassion fatigue, family concerns, and life-stage questions like midlife shifts and finding purpose. Her style is calm and straightforward.
She focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions. Charmaine draws on nearly two decades of experience to tailor conversations to each person's needs.
How Charmaine works
She listens without judgment and helps people notice patterns in their thoughts and behavior. Together they pick small, doable goals that make daily life feel more manageable. Her work often includes techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thinking.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and move toward them, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and ground attention. Motivational interviewing shows up when someone needs support finding internal reasons to change. Sessions are warm and practical.
Charmaine offers steps to try between meetings and reviews what helps and what doesn't. She pays attention to caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, fatherhood concerns, and the loneliness that can come with life transitions. People who reach out can expect clear explanations and a collaborative pace.
Her goal is to help clients build skills they can use every day, so progress continues after therapy sessions end.
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What Charmaine works with
The areas below are the ones Charmaine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on action and acceptance rather than trying to eliminate difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood shifts. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and emphasizes being heard and respected during the process.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they check what feels helpful and adjust the plan as progress is tracked over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can work well for a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into a busy day or to use quick check-ins between sessions. These options make it simpler to maintain steady contact and keep forward momentum.
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