About Charles
Dr. Charles Graham offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by everyday life. He helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, ADHD, and relationship or parenting worries.
His style is straightforward and down-to-earth, aimed at helping someone find clearer routines and coping strategies. He brings 20 years as a licensed master social worker, LMSW, working across public and personal settings. That background shaped a flexible approach that adjusts to whatever a person needs in the moment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps, not jargon, and on building small habits that add up over time. In sessions he listens without judgment and encourages practical action. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thinking and on acceptance-focused ideas to manage difficult feelings.
Motivational interviewing helps when people are stuck or unsure about change. People meet him for concrete goals such as improving sleep, managing attention and focus, cutting back substance use, handling grief, or easing panic and avoidance. He also addresses deeper themes like shame, identity, and life purpose when those come up.
Appointments are intended to be collaborative. Together they set goals and track progress with simple tools and homework when useful. He aims to make therapy feel useful from early sessions onward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, and then commit to small values-guided actions. It can be helpful for chronic worry, life transitions, and when ADHD leads to frustration or avoidance.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. It often helps with anxiety, panic, low mood, sleep problems, and habits related to addictions.
Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust over time based on what helps. That collaborative stance aims to make sessions feel practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier on the go. Live chat and text messages work well for short check-ins, tracking progress, or handling brief coaching between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can fit therapy into work, family life, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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