About Charles
Charles Michel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of experience. He works in Indiana and offers straightforward, person-focused therapy for worry, mood struggles, relationship strain, and phobias among many other concerns. He uses a collaborative style that centers on the relationship between therapist and client.
Sessions are warm and practical, with an emphasis on listening first and then finding steps that fit each person's life. Clients can expect clear talk and tools they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Charles has spent decades helping people with serious mood and anxiety conditions, including depression, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, alongside everyday stresses like parenting, career pressure, and caregiving strain. He also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and intimacy or sexual concerns. His work draws on several approaches.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused methods guide conversations toward understanding feelings and strengthening important relationships.
Sessions can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and costs vary by location and therapist availability. To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time that works with the therapist's calendar.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Charles uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns of thought and behavior that increase worry or avoidance, then practices small experiments to change those patterns. This approach is useful for phobias, anxiety, and mood issues because it focuses on clear steps and measurable changes.He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those skills are helpful when strong emotions get in the way of day-to-day functioning or relationships. Client-Centered Therapy guides sessions by following what matters most to the person and creating space to make sense of feelings and choices.
Choosing an approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will review goals, try techniques, and adjust as needed so the plan fits the client's needs, goals, and preferences.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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