My Approach to Helping
My name is Charlette and I love my work. I have been a psychotherapist since 1990 and feel blessed to have found this profession. I have the privilege and delight of helping my clients find an inner clarity, goodness, and strength they did not know existed. This may sound hokey and unrealistic. In fact, I have found that clients who have faced and healed the wounds that have caused their suffering are able to stay connected to the security and dignity at their core. They can overcome the symptoms, complaints, and undermining patterns that have plagued them for years, if not decades.
I feel deep respect and compassion for my fellow human beings and am dedicated to helping my clients heal and thrive. It’s natural to feel anxiety at first about attending therapy. You will quickly feel the relief of being heard, understood, validated, and empathized with. I will challenge and guide you in a way that is reassuring, growth-enhancing, and rewarding. I have experience helping clients living with: anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress (PTSD), complex PTSD, compulsive behaviors, chronic health problems, insecure relationships, narcissistic abuse, betrayal and abandonment, grief, and disturbing emotions that persist and seem to serve no purpose.
The therapeutic approaches I use are based on the importance of human emotion and attachment relationships throughout the human lifespan. My training and experience have proven to me that relationship trauma in our formative years has an enormous impact on our adult lives and health. The experiential interventions I offer are not band-aids; they produce deep healing and competency in handling life’s challenges. After years of extensive training, I became certified in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) trauma treatment in 2006 and emotionally focused therapy for couples in 2013.
Therapy with me includes:
1. A nurturing and secure relationship, something most people have not experienced,
2. EMDR, My clients and I have healed thousands of traumatic memories.
3. Skills-building: such as mindfulness and how to manage emotions effectively,
4. The inner child work to soothe one’s insecurities
5. Discussions on many topics such as emotions, trauma, the nervous system, attachment relationships, toxic relationships, and how trauma affects the body.
Not all therapists are comfortable with their own and their clients’ vulnerable emotions. The client is then deprived of a more meaningful and empathic connection. Additionally, when therapists do not focus on developing their client’s ability to safely explore their emotional life, past and present, therapists are merely skimming the surface and leaving intact the foundation of their clients’ struggles.
What I believe makes me a trustworthy, effective, and empathetic guide is the fact that I personally know the courage, honesty, and perseverance it takes to explore one’s vulnerable emotions, traumas, relationship dysfunction, insecurities, and blind spots. I bring into my therapy practice decades of professional training and experience. More than that, I share all the peace, wisdom, authenticity, and compassion I’ve gleaned from facing my emotion-laden life challenges.
I invite and encourage you to call me. Allow me to help you feel good in your skin, mind, and heart and become wiser and more effective in your relationships.