About Char
Char Midkiff is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 14 years of experience. She began her counseling career after completing her degree while working full time and raising a family. Char draws on personal life experience, including blended family dynamics and serious health challenges, to connect with people facing hard transitions.
She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. Sessions typically include straightforward conversation, concrete coping skills, and short-term goal work to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Char aims to help clients notice small shifts that add up over time. Her work also addresses relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, addiction and recovery issues, ADHD, anger, and career questions. Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care, end-of-life and hospice related stress, caregiver burnout, and communication problems.
She brings both professional and lived experience to these topics. Char uses client-centered methods and evidence-informed tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies. Sessions emphasize collaboration and building practical plans clients can try between meetings.
The tone is warm, direct, and goal-oriented. People who prefer clear steps, coping strategies, and realistic discussions about change may find this approach helpful. Char offers support for those wanting to handle big emotions, improve day-to-day functioning, and work toward clearer life direction.
How these approaches work online
Char uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's concerns and personal strengths; this means conversations follow the client's priorities and build from what feels most important. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and daily challenges, then recommend methods to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, and sessions can combine approaches when useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well with limited bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be used for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English