About Saskia
Saskia Charles is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and grief. She brings 17 years of experience working in residential, in-home, addictions, and outpatient settings. Saskia aims to create practical, down-to-earth support for people facing difficult life changes.
She often focuses on trauma and abuse, mood disorders such as bipolar and depression, and anxiety-related concerns including sleeping problems. Many people also seek her help for relationship issues, parenting strain, and challenges connected to ADHD.
Background and approach
Her work includes support around family conflict, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver stress. Saskia draws on a mix of methods to meet people where they are. She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Motivational Interviewing helps when making changes around substance use and other habits. She emphasizes clear steps and small goals. Sessions tend to focus on practical coping strategies, skill-building, and straightforward problem solving.
Saskia encourages people to set realistic goals and track progress between meetings. Based in Florida, she works in English and brings long-term experience with diverse clinical settings. Her background includes work with LGBTQI people and a range of complex issues such as dissociation, codependency, and attachment difficulties.
She invites people to reach out when they want steady, experienced support through hard transitions.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Saskia commonly uses client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means the therapist listens closely and follows the person’s lead, helping them name what matters and set meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when people need help with intense emotions or crisis coping. DBT skills include techniques for regulating feelings, tolerating distress, and improving communication, which suit concerns like mood disorders, self-regulation, and relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. That might mean trying skill practice from DBT one week and CBT homework the next, while keeping sessions rooted in a client-centered conversation.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging supports quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions, helping therapy fit into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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