I’m Chardae (She/Her), a licensed clinical social worker and relational therapist. I work with individuals, couples, and people in diverse relationship and family structures who are navigating relationship challenges, codependency, communication difficulties, boundaries, attachment patterns, trauma, life transitions, and/or feeling disconnected from themselves or the people they love (anxiety/depression and/or burnout).
I'm glad you're here! Finding a therapist can be tough in all the ways-from making the decision, trying to find someone that you will connect with, reaching out, filling out the paperwork etc. I know from experience and I have used that experience to inform my approach as a therapist.
My approach is warm, direct and solution-focused.
What we need to talk through may have been heavy for you to carry but therapy is where you get to put it all down for a bit and at the least not carry it all alone. Its important to me that this time feels helpful and valuable to you. We will spend time processing your experience AND we will will work together to find solutions where you're feeling stuck. Then, I get to be your hype-woman and your accountability partner as you make it happen!
There are very few forms to get started and you don't have to revisit anything heavy before we meet. Please reach out if you have any questions about this. Unpacking unsupported is not how we do things over here!
Our first session is about getting a sense of what’s happening and what brought you here now.
We might use strategies such as cycle-mapping, tools such as mindfulness and breath-work for nervous system regulation and evidence-based practices such as CBT and ACT which help identity patterns, take action on what we can control and accept and release attachment to what we can't. The plan that we create together will be designed based on your strengths, interests, challenges, how you would like to feel and the vision that you have for your life.
My intention is for this space to be a soft place to land where you can make sense of your experience, build greater self-trust, develop some more tools and have a healthier and more balanced relationship with yourself and the people that you care about.
