About Charlene
Charlene Mabins is a licensed social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem concerns, LGBT issues, compassion fatigue, and transitions in life.
Background and approach
With 10 years of clinical experience, she combines empathy and practical strategies to build individualized plans that address both emotional needs and daily functioning. Charlene emphasizes respect and sensitivity while working with each person to shape therapy around their goals and circumstances.
Her approach blends evidence-based methods with a warm, collaborative style. She draws on therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to offer tools for coping, emotion regulation, and improved relationships with oneself and others.
Charlene adapts interventions to the concern at hand, whether that is managing chronic stress, navigating grief, confronting body image or caregiving strain, or addressing attachment and personality-related patterns. She encourages clients to recognize the courage it takes to begin therapy and supports them through each step of the process.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Charlene commonly integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values to guide meaningful action; it can help with anxiety, stress, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress and build coping skills, which is useful for problems like anxiety, low self-esteem, and grief.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and will be determined collaboratively. She will work with clients to explore goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring, then suggest methods and adjust them over time so the plan fits each person's needs and pace.
Online therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility for scheduling and continuity of care. These formats allow clients to access licensed professionals from home or other locations, choose the communication style that feels most comfortable, and maintain consistent progress even when routines or circumstances change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English