About Saskia
Saskia Charles is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of experience in the mental health field. She offers direct, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addiction, trauma, and the everyday strain of family life. Her style is straightforward and hopeful, aimed at helping people make small changes that add up over time.
She has worked in residential settings, in-home programs, addiction services, and outpatient clinics across Florida.
Background and approach
That range gives her familiarity with crisis moments and longer term recovery work. She commonly helps people coping with trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar mood issues, grief, and ADHD-related challenges. Saskia uses an adaptable, client-centered approach.
Sessions focus on what the person needs right now, whether that means learning practical coping skills, tracking thoughts and behaviors, or strengthening communication in strained relationships. She leans on tried techniques to reduce anxiety, manage difficult emotions, and address patterns that keep problems repeating.
Motivational elements and narrative work often appear in her sessions to help clients name the changes they want and build steps toward them. Dialectical strategies and cognitive-behavioral tools are used when emotions run high and clearer thinking is needed. Saskia practices in Florida as an LMHC and speaks English.
She aims to create a calm, compassionate space where people feel heard and can begin to move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. Online sessions using this approach aim to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person sets the pace and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect; in remote sessions that often means tracking patterns between meetings and practicing new habits in daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds tools for handling intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, and those skills can be taught and practiced during video or text-based check-ins.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about current struggles, what has helped before, and what goals are most important. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust them over time based on what feels effective.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls work well for more in-depth conversations and skill teaching. Phone sessions can be a good shorter option or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused support during the day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules while keeping care consistent.
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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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