- Mindfulness practices
- Attachment focus
- Relationship work
About Charlette
Charlette Forteza is an Iowa LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 17 years of experience. She works with adults on relationship concerns, anxiety, stress, family and parenting challenges, and issues like guilt and shame.
She uses mindfulness alongside evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people notice what is happening in their minds and bodies. Sessions focus on practical steps and gentle reflection. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at helping people make clearer choices about next steps.
Charlette often supports people dealing with intimacy and attachment problems, communication breakdowns, divorce or separation, and struggles with self-image. She also works with those facing compassion fatigue or questions of life purpose. Her approach brings attention to how everyday thoughts and habits affect feelings of guilt and shame.
Her work emphasizes slowing down, naming hard feelings, and trying small changes to see what helps. She draws on mindfulness practice to help people become more aware of patterns that keep them stuck and to increase options for responding differently.
Charlette accepts international clients and offers services in English. Before a first session, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule their initial appointment through the online process provided on the site.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Charlette blends mindfulness practice with evidence-based therapeutic techniques. Mindfulness practice helps people notice their thoughts, bodily sensations, and emotional reactions in the moment. This can be useful for managing guilt and shame by increasing awareness of how those feelings arise and pass.Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are applied in clear, step-by-step ways to address relationship patterns, anxiety, and communication problems. These methods typically involve identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to see what shifts in daily life. They are practical tools for breaking repetitive cycles that feed guilt or low self-worth.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Charlette works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try approaches, review what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Session format details are not listed in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Therapists can also adapt exercises and mindfulness practices to suit video or audio sessions and to match what each person finds practical in daily life.
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Experience
17+ years
Listed in
Iowa
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with relationship and intimacy issues, anxiety, stress, family and parenting challenges, and problems related to guilt and shame.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She combines mindfulness with evidence-based therapeutic techniques and uses practical conversation and reflection to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 17 years of combined experience working in mental health settings with adults.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
She accepts international clients and provides sessions in English.
What session formats are offered?
Session formats are not specified in the biography; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.