About Carlotta
Carlotta "Charly" Valdez helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem. She meets clients with a straightforward, kind approach and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Charly is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California with four years of professional experience. She treats issues related to abandonment, attachment struggles, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation or loneliness.
She also supports people facing questions about life purpose, recovering from post-traumatic stress, and building self-love. Her work often centers on short-term goals that feel useful in daily life.
In sessions she listens closely and helps clients name patterns that cause pain. Conversations include coping strategies and small experiments to try outside of therapy.
Charly encourages reflection but keeps plans concrete and achievable. Her tone is supportive and empowering.
She frames the client as the expert in their own life and offers tools to strengthen existing strengths. The aim is steady progress toward clearer relationships with self and others.
Charly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make ongoing work more manageable. She accepts international clients and tailors scheduling to fit different time zones and routines.
Approaches and what online therapy looks like
Two evidence-based techniques commonly used in this practice are practical skills training and trauma-focused work. Practical skills training teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety, stress, and social worry, such as breathing exercises, behavior experiments, and step-by-step plans for difficult situations. Trauma-focused work helps people process distressing events and reduce intrusive memories by breaking problems into manageable parts and building coping resources.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and pace. Sessions are shaped together so techniques feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging make it possible to send quick updates, try brief exercises, or maintain contact between scheduled meetings. These options help match therapy to different routines, time zones, and energy levels.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English