Char Midkiff , LMHC

Char Midkiff is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 14 years of experience helping people navigate tough life transitions and deep loss. She offers steady, practical support for those feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or changes in roles and relationships.

Char draws on her own life experience alongside clinical methods to guide conversations that are direct and compassionate. She helps people identify realistic steps to feel better and to use their strengths more effectively. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on immediate needs.

Her background includes long-term work while raising a family and completing her degree, plus personal experiences with blended family life and surviving cancer twice. Those experiences shape how she listens and what she prioritizes in sessions. She also has supported end-of-life care for a fellow counselor.

Char uses approaches such as client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to help with mood, coping, and daily challenges. She offers tools for dealing with anger, impulsivity, addiction, and communication problems.

People who come to Char often want straightforward guidance, practical coping strategies, and a calm voice during change. She helps with parenting concerns, career shifts, relationship strain, and questions about life purpose. Conversations stay grounded and aimed at small steps that add up over time.

Approaches and Online Care That Fit Your Life

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding where you are now. The therapist reflects your concerns and helps you set goals that feel realistic and meaningful, which can be useful for grief, life purpose, and self-esteem work.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It provides practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, often used for anxiety, depression, and anger.

Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment and teaches simple practices for reducing reactivity and stress. It can help with overwhelm, impulsivity, and emotional regulation.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and the issue at hand. That process is flexible and adjusted as progress unfolds.

Online therapy gives options for how to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth or quiet time is limited, live chat offers brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.