About Aartje
Aartje Caldwell offers help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, or major life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with 35 years of experience. Her style is steady and direct, aimed at practical steps people can use day to day.
She focuses on short-term goals and clearer thinking. Sessions often include ways to manage upsetting thoughts and build small routines that reduce stress.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing loneliness, caregiver strain, chronic illness, or end-of-life concerns. Caldwell uses straightforward tools from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. She works with clients to set achievable steps and to stay motivated through change.
Solution-Focused techniques are used to spot strengths and to plan next moves. People can expect a calm, respectful tone and a focus on what can change now. Conversations center on practical coping skills, improved communication, and finding purpose after loss or transition.
She draws on decades of experience without making the process more complex than it needs to be. Sessions are offered to people in Indiana and are held in English. Her background supports work with issues related to aging, caregiving, blended family dynamics, cancer, chronic pain, divorce and separation, guilt, and forgiveness.
The emphasis is on steady progress and clear, doable strategies.
How her approaches work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small actions. It helps with anxiety, low mood, stress, and routines that feel out of control. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational way to sort out mixed feelings and build personal reasons to change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or uncertain about next steps.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That shared planning guides which methods are tried first and when adjustments are needed, so treatment fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat work well for brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for matching the way someone prefers to communicate.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English