About Charlotte
Charlotte Beachem is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) in Michigan with 23 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Charlotte uses a practical, down-to-earth style. She focuses on restoring hope and building on each person's strengths. Sessions aim to give clear feedback and tools that can be tried between appointments.
Background and approach
The goal is more confidence and better choices in everyday life. Her approach mixes body-centered work with well-known talking therapies. Somatic elements help people notice physical reactions to stress and learn ways to calm the body.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and shift them toward more useful actions. Attachment-based and client-centered ideas guide how she builds trust in sessions. Those methods focus on relationship patterns and on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space.
Clients are invited to speak about what matters most to them and to set concrete goals. Charlotte draws on decades of experience to tailor sessions to each person. She offers practical strategies for coping and for making gradual, lasting changes.
People seeking steady support through life transitions often find this approach helpful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed therapy helps people tune into bodily signals that show up with stress, anxiety, or grief. Online sessions can include guidance to notice breath, tension, and simple movements to reduce overwhelm and build calm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions in line with those values while learning to notice painful thoughts without being driven by them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early connections shape adult reactions; it can help people change how they relate to others and to themselves.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then recommend methods that fit. That collaboration helps shape a plan that mixes somatic noticing, thought work, and practical exercises as needed.
Online therapy gives flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and guided movement or breathing work. Phone sessions are a simpler option for focused conversation. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, homework support, and easier access between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care during life changes and busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English