About Charity
Dr. Charity Rolfes helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, career stress, eating and body image issues, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue.
Dr. Rolfes offers straightforward care that focuses on practical ways to feel safer in the body and clearer in the mind. She centers the work on a respectful, compassionate relationship.
Sessions aim to create a calm space where people can talk about painful experiences without judgment.
Background and approach
Dr. Rolfes uses listening, gentle reflection, and concrete tools to help people notice how their body and thoughts respond to stress. Her approach draws on somatic work to track body sensations, and on cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also integrates client-centered and dialectical behavior ideas to build practical coping skills and acceptance. Jungian ideas about meaning sometimes shape the work for people exploring identity and life purpose. With 25 years in practice, Dr.
Rolfes brings experience with trauma, attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, and blended family concerns. She also addresses chronic pain, illness, disability, and the stresses caregivers often carry. Her perspective includes attention to neurodiversity, LGBT identities, and cultural background when relevant to a person’s goals.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, chat, or text. People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their needs. The overall aim is calmer days, clearer choices, and improved connection to self and others.
How somatic and practical approaches work online
Somatic approaches focus on body sensations and movement to help people notice and change patterns of stress and reactivity. This work is useful for trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, and situations where emotions show up strongly in the body. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes a respectful, non-judgmental relationship and gives people space to set the agenda and move at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches straightforward tools to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and test which methods fit best. Over time the plan can shift to include more body-focused work, skill training, or reflective exploration depending on what helps most.
Online therapy by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and people who prefer to meet from home. These formats make it easier to maintain regular sessions and to use brief check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic and cognitive techniques to work over these channels, giving practical support and tools that carry into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English