About Charnelle
Charnelle Cook is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia with seven years of independent practice experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and life changes. Charnelle takes a strengths-based approach and encourages clients to notice what is working in their lives as a starting point for change.
She uses person-centered, or client-centered, methods so clients guide the pace and focus of sessions. Charnelle also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Those strategies are paired with mindfulness and solution-focused ideas when they fit a person's goals. Charnelle aims to help people build practical skills they can use between sessions. That might include short experiments to test new ways of thinking, simple mindfulness exercises to reduce stress, or small goal steps that move a person toward what matters to them.
She pays attention to cultural context and how background shapes current struggles. Her experience includes work with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and a range of relationship and family-of-origin concerns. Charnelle also addresses body image, shame, isolation, and career-related stress in therapy conversations.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To get started, people complete a short matching questionnaire and can schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
Approach and online options for practical change
Charnelle blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change patterns that cause distress. Client-centered therapy means the person leads conversations and sets the pace, while the therapist listens and reflects. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on noticing thoughts, experimenting with different responses, and changing behaviors to improve mood and functioning.She also uses mindfulness techniques to build awareness of present-moment experience and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness can help with anxiety, stress, and managing difficult emotions by teaching short, actionable practices that fit into daily life. Choosing which approaches to use is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to figure out what fits their goals, needs, and preferences and adjust over time.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is a concern, live chat provides a real-time typed conversation, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English