Charline Gaskin, LPC

Charline Gaskin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She draws on five years of clinical experience to offer practical support and clear steps people can use between sessions. Her approach centers on each person's goals and daily life. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques are used to clarify values and build committed action. Mindfulness strategies and skills from dialectical behavior therapy add ways to stay grounded during intense moments. Sessions emphasize collaboration. Charline listens to a person’s story and then works with them to set realistic goals. She helps people build coping skills, improve communication, and manage strong emotions in ways that fit their routines. She also supports people facing parenting stress, addiction concerns, career pressure, compassion fatigue, attention challenges, and family-of-origin issues. Specific areas of focus include attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, blended family challenges, and struggles with guilt or shame. Charline offers straightforward coaching for life transitions and problem solving alongside therapy work. Her style is warm and direct, aiming to make therapy useful from session one. She practices in Connecticut and conducts sessions in English.

CBT, ACT, and Mindfulness for Online Care

Charline uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then try small experiments to change them. This approach is practical and often includes homework between sessions to practice new skills. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when feelings are difficult. Mindfulness tools are taught to help slow down reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness during stress. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Charline will listen to each person's concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. Together they adjust the plan based on what is helpful and what feels manageable. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skills practice, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options offer flexibility so people can keep progress moving forward around work, family, and other commitments.