About Saskia
Saskia Charles is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings 17 years of experience to her work. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, mood disorders, and trauma. Her style is straightforward and aimed at helping people make manageable changes.
She has worked in residential settings, in-home programs, addiction services, and outpatient clinics. That range of experience means she is familiar with the ups and downs people face when life shifts or relationships strain.
Background and approach
She often sees people coping with grief, sleep problems, parenting stress, and relationship issues. In sessions she uses a mix of approaches and adapts to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques help identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
Client-centered methods create space for people to speak without pressure and set their own goals. She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. Motivational Interviewing is used to support people who are unsure about change or facing addiction challenges.
Existential ideas come into play when people are wrestling with meaning, choices, and identity. Saskia aims to meet people where they are, offer clear steps, and build motivation for change. She works with adults facing family conflict, blended family challenges, attachment concerns, and issues related to adoption or foster care.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, chat, or messaging.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what they say, and helps them set goals that feel realistic. This approach is useful for people who need time to talk through feelings and find direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going. Online CBT uses structured conversations and exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress-related problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills. When intense emotions or relationship conflicts are present, DBT techniques can offer clear tools to manage reactions and reduce crises. Choosing the right method is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try approaches that match the person's needs and adjust as therapy progresses. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text messaging supports quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or continuity between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English