Chelsey Flohe, LCSW

Chelsey Flohe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of clinical experience. She greets people with a direct, encouraging style and focuses on helping them navigate stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, and major life changes.

Chelsey draws on practical methods to help people make small, doable changes. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors, and she includes solution-focused and trauma-informed techniques when they fit. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with steps you can try between meetings.

Her background includes work in civilian, military, and hospital settings. She is a female veteran and has experience supporting people affected by chronic illness, caregiving demands, and end-of-life concerns. This experience informs her attention to health inequities and social justice themes in treatment.

Chelsey aims to challenge people gently when they feel stuck. She helps people name what’s getting in the way and build manageable plans to move forward. The approach balances practical skill-building with attention to past trauma and current stressors.

People who choose Chelsey often want clear strategies and steady support. She expects honest effort and offers guidance rooted in long clinical experience. Her practice is based in Virginia and sessions are offered in English.

Evidence-informed approaches delivered online

Chelsey commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in her online work. CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on processing traumatic events and building coping skills to reduce their impact on daily life.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Chelsey will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then recommend ways of working together. That plan can change as progress is made or new needs appear, and she aims to keep clients involved in each step.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat sessions work for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while using the approaches described above.