About Charles
Charles Clendennen is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 29 years of experience. He focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, career troubles, and anxiety. He emphasizes clients' strengths and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
He listens for what matters most and helps people find practical steps forward. Sessions focus on clear goals, coping skills, and building on the things that already work in a person’s life.
Background and approach
He offers steady support while people try new ways of handling stress or difficult emotions. Charles has worked with concerns like depression, addictions, compassion fatigue, and control issues. He also addresses first responder issues, post-traumatic stress, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
He brings decades of experience to help people manage both everyday pressures and deeper losses. In sessions he talks through what’s getting in the way and practices skills clients can use between meetings. He also helps people process grief, plan career moves, and cope with the emotional toll of caregiving or hospice situations.
The work is practical and paced to each person’s needs. People can expect a respectful, direct counselor who focuses on realistic changes. Charles aims to empower people to take steps toward a more satisfying life while providing steady guidance during difficult times.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Charles uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and processing difficult events. One approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety, stress, and day-to-day challenges by teaching breathing, grounding, and behavioral strategies people can practice between sessions. Another approach centers on processing trauma and grief by helping people tell their story at a manageable pace and identify steps to reduce the ways those memories impact daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest methods that fit your situation. That process is collaborative - you and the therapist decide what to try and adjust as you learn what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want frequent brief touchpoints, or need to fit sessions into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain regular care and to use techniques learned in sessions in real life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English