About Dorothy
Dorothy Charest is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of clinical experience. She practices in Florida and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and related challenges. Her approach centers on listening carefully and adapting care to each person's needs.
Dorothy aims for straightforward, practical work in sessions. She uses conversation and structured techniques to help people reduce symptoms and make concrete changes.
Background and approach
She often combines skills-based methods with exploration of personal values and goals. Her background includes long-term clinical work with concerns such as sexually compulsive behaviors, process addictions, grief, and intimacy-related issues. That experience informs how she responds to painful or sensitive topics and helps people find pathways forward.
She also works with obsessive and compulsive patterns, personality disorder features, phobias, and bipolar-related concerns. In sessions she draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful therapeutic relationship. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to teach coping skills and set practical goals.
Motivational Interviewing is part of her work when people face ambivalence about change. People who reach out can expect a calm, nonjudgmental tone and a focus on small, achievable steps. Dorothy supports parents with parenting strain and people navigating relationship or career stresses.
She offers video, phone, chat, or text-based sessions to fit busy schedules.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting, respectful relationship where the person leads the pace and topics of work. This helps when someone needs space to talk through difficult feelings and make sense of what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches specific skills to notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that maintain distress. It often includes homework and simple exercises that people can practice between sessions to ease anxiety or depression.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, realistic goals and practical steps to move forward. It is useful when someone wants quick, targeted change around relationships, work, or daily routines.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. Plans can be adjusted over time if something is not helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video helps when visual cues matter, phone calls use less bandwidth, chat can be a shorter check-in during a break, and messaging lets people write when that feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English