Charlotte Schafer, LPC

Charlotte Schafer is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Virginia. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, sleep and eating disruptions, anger, and challenges with self-esteem and relationships. She also supports people dealing with career shifts, parenting strain, bipolar symptoms, and coping with major life changes.

Charlotte trained in professional counseling and completed a residency at Counseling Alliance of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has eight years of experience in the field and later opened a small private practice. Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Christian counseling and a Master of Arts in professional counseling from Liberty University.

Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions combine clear skills with time to talk things through. She uses an integrative approach and draws on several methods to match what a person needs at the moment.

Common methods she uses include cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, dialectical behavior skills to manage intense emotions, and acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and action. She also uses mindfulness grounding exercises and can include Christian-based counseling when a client prefers faith elements.

Charlotte aims to help people build usable tools. She focuses on small steps that fit daily life, such as breathing and grounding practices, behavior changes, and clearer communication. Her practice centers on steady progress rather than quick fixes.

How her approaches fit online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It emphasizes accepting difficult feelings while building a life that reflects personal priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thought and behavior that cause distress and then testing new ways of thinking and acting to feel better. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings concrete skills for tolerating strong emotions, improving relationships, and managing impulses.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s needs, goals, and comfort level. That choice can shift over time as progress and challenges become clearer.

Confirm current session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and offer a way to practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and DBT techniques to remote sessions so people can learn grounding, emotion regulation, and thought-challenging skills from wherever they join.