About Charlette
Charlette Forteza offers calm, practical support for people feeling stuck by relationship stress, anxiety, or life changes. She speaks plainly and helps clients clarify what matters most so they can take the next steps. Charlette is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - with 17 years of experience and practices from Iowa.
Her style is human-centered and down-to-earth. She blends mindfulness with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people notice patterns, manage strong feelings, and make different choices.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear strategies and steady reflection rather than jargon or one-size-fits-all plans. Clients often come with concerns about intimacy, communication problems, family tension, parenting strain, or compassion fatigue. Charlette also addresses attachment issues, body image, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
She helps people sort through relationship challenges like divorce and separation and think about healthier boundaries. In a session she might teach a simple mindfulness exercise, practice a new way of talking about conflict, or map out small behavior changes to reduce anxiety. The approach aims to be practical so clients can try something between appointments and notice whether it helps.
Charlette invites people to take gradual steps toward clearer priorities and more satisfying connections. She works collaboratively to set goals and adjusts the pace based on each person’s needs and comfort level.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Charlette uses mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment; this can reduce reactivity and make choices feel clearer. She also applies evidence-based therapeutic techniques to teach practical skills for managing anxiety, improving communication, and coping with life transitions. These methods focus on concrete steps people can try between sessions to see what helps.Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. Charlette will work with each person to identify goals, try different strategies, and adjust the approach based on what fits the person's needs and preferences. The aim is to build skills and insight together rather than imposing a fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and are useful when video isn't possible, live chat supports short check-ins or focused problem-solving, and messaging lets people reflect in their own time between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English