About Charissa
Charissa Bogle is a licensed clinical social worker in Tennessee with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem. Her style is direct and compassionate so people can feel heard and begin to make changes.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for clients to talk through what matters most. Sessions emphasize practical skills for managing strong emotions and clearer communication in relationships.
Background and approach
Charissa uses a mix of approaches chosen to fit each person’s needs rather than a single method. Her background includes long experience using attachment and emotion regulation ideas. She blends acceptance-based work with cognitive strategies and skills training to help people tolerate distress, notice unhelpful thoughts, and act on values.
This practical focus aims to reduce avoidance and improve day-to-day functioning. Charissa has worked extensively with neurodivergent people and LGBTQ+ communities and has years of clinical experience related to trauma and life transitions. She also has experience supporting people coping with medical issues such as cancer and the stress that caregivers face.
In sessions she centers the client’s goals and uses clear, teachable techniques. The emphasis is on building coping tools, improving communication, and helping people move toward more satisfying relationships and daily life.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps people who feel stuck in avoidance or who want clearer direction in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of responding to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is useful for worry, panic, and persistent negative thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day needs. That means trying a few tools, checking what helps, and adjusting as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed for skill coaching and emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, skills practice between sessions, or when writing feels clearer than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English