About Dorothy
Dorothy Charest is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 18 years of experience. She practices in Florida and helps people who are coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and related concerns. Dorothy focuses on clear, practical work that feels manageable at each step.
Her style is direct but warm. She listens first and asks questions to understand how symptoms show up in daily life.
Background and approach
Then she and the client pick skills or strategies to try in short, doable steps. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to the person's needs. Dorothy uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered methods to address unwanted thoughts, avoidance, and problematic behaviors.
She also draws on solution-focused and trauma-informed ways of working when appropriate. These approaches are used to reduce distress, improve functioning, and build better coping routines. Many people seek support for anxiety, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, phobias, and process addictions like problematic gambling or sexual behaviors.
Dorothy also helps with relationship strain, grief, anger, self-esteem, and career stress. She adapts interventions to the problem a person brings in each session. Her sessions can include coaching-style goal work when people want concrete changes.
She values a nonjudgmental tone and practical homework that fits busy lives. The focus is on small, sustainable changes that add up over time.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience, then shaping sessions around their pace and goals. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk through anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors through small experiments and practice. It is commonly used for anxiety, phobias, obsessive thoughts, and mood concerns because it gives clear steps people can try between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify their own reasons for change and build commitment. It pairs well with work on addictions and behavior change by breaking larger goals into realistic next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dorothy will discuss these methods with each person and decide collaboratively which techniques fit the problem, goals, and comfort level. She tailors the balance of listening, skill teaching, and goal-focused work to each person's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy sessions and learning new skills, while phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone needs shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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