Charlotte Kennedy, LMSW

Charlotte Kennedy is a licensed social worker who uses practical approaches to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She is an MI LMSW with seven years of clinical experience and focuses on clear, doable steps clients can use between sessions.

She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take values-based action. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with time spent on small skills that make daily life easier. Charlotte also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas to build a compassionate space for talking about relationships and family patterns.

Many clients come for help with grief, parenting stresses, substance concerns, workplace pressure, or relationship conflict. She pays attention to how family of origin, adoption and foster care, or caregiver roles affect current choices and feelings. Practical tools are paired with attention to emotions and relationships.

Charlotte works with issues such as abandonment, communication problems, commitment worries, and dependent personality patterns, offering concrete strategies and behavior-based experiments. She includes mindfulness and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to support emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Sessions may involve breathing and grounding practices, thought records, behavioral experiments, and values clarification. The aim is steady progress and usable skills, not quick fixes. People who prefer a straightforward, supportive approach that ties thoughts, feelings, and actions together tend to find her style helpful.

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Charlotte commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; this method is practical and often focuses on small experiments people can try between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her work and helps clients clarify personal values and commit to actions that matter despite difficult thoughts or feelings. Attachment-Based ideas guide conversations about how early relationships influence current patterns and how to build healthier connections.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, review what has or hasn’t worked before, and try methods suited to your situation. Adjustments are made as needed so the plan stays relevant to your needs.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins or continued support between sessions. These formats offer flexibility and let people use the tools they learn in real time within their everyday routines.