About Charles
Charles "Charlie" Adams is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with 15 years of experience. He focuses on individual therapy for adults and brings a calm, direct style to sessions.
Background and approach
He works with people facing depression, anxiety, and issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Charlie aims to make sessions simple and straightforward.
He creates an open space where people can name feelings and talk about what matters most. He helps clients rebuild motivation, strengthen self-esteem, and navigate grief or major life changes.
His background includes work across inpatient psychiatric settings, partial hospitalization programs, and outpatient counseling. That range gives him practical experience with both short-term crisis care and longer-term therapy.
He also has many years facilitating mental health and support groups. In sessions he uses clear, collaborative methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches.
Those tools are applied in everyday language to help change habits, shift unhelpful thoughts, and build coping skills. Charlie believes making change takes courage and steady support.
He focuses on what you want to work on, then helps map small steps toward that goal. His manner is supportive while staying focused on concrete progress.
People who prefer a practical, respectful therapist often find his approach helpful. He works in English and offers a range of session formats to fit different schedules.
Approaches and online therapy options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to what each person says, helping people feel heard and guiding them toward their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change those patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and mood issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try methods that seem to fit, and adjust as needed so the work matches your needs and preferences.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy work with different schedules. Video calls are good for a fuller conversation when you can be on camera, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can fit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English