About Charolette
Charolette Riale is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with 16 years of experience. She helps people facing addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and the stress of big life changes. She aims to create a respectful, compassionate space for people to talk through hard things and find clearer next steps.
Her work is practical and person-focused. She listens first and adapts conversations to each person's needs. That can mean using short exercises to change unhelpful thoughts, motivational conversations to boost readiness for change, or calm, steady support when trauma memories arise.
Background and approach
Charolette draws on several evidence-informed ways of working, including client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, motivational interviewing, solution-focused planning, and trauma-focused approaches. She matches these methods to the goals someone brings to sessions rather than using one fixed style. People often come for help with family issues, communication problems, codependency, caregiver stress, and struggles tied to separation or domestic violence.
She also addresses feelings of emptiness, shame, low self-esteem, and challenges around intimacy and parenting. Sessions may focus on short-term problem solving or on longer work to rebuild confidence and coping skills. Charolette emphasizes collaboration, respect, and realistic steps so change feels possible and manageable.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding someone without judgment. Online sessions use that same listening-first approach to help people feel heard and to set goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives clear, practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which works well in video or phone sessions where homework and brief exercises can be reviewed together. Motivational Interviewing helps people move toward change by exploring ambivalence and strengthening motivation through respectful conversation that fits well into short check-ins by chat or text.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean trying a few techniques and adjusting the plan as progress and needs become clearer.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging make quick check-ins and step-by-step guidance easier during busy weeks. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and to use methods that match how someone prefers to communicate.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English