Aartje Caldwell , LCSW

Aartje Caldwell is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical support for coping with major life changes and on issues many women face during transitions. Her approach is compassionate and straightforward.

Clients can expect calm listening and clear steps to move forward. Sessions focus on small, doable changes and on building coping skills for daily life. Aartje uses methods that help people reframe unhelpful thoughts and set realistic goals.

She works with people dealing with caregiving strain, chronic illness or pain, and concerns around aging and life purpose. She also supports those facing divorce, blended family tensions, abandonment, and isolation. End-of-life and hospice related worries are included in her practice areas.

Aartje integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify thought and behavior patterns. She uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. Solution-Focused Therapy helps clients set short-term goals and track progress.

Sessions are offered in English and are provided through multiple online formats. She practices in Indiana and brings decades of experience to each conversation. People seeking steady, pragmatic support for emotional challenges often find her direct and steady style helpful.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Aartje commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in online work. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Motivational Interviewing focuses on a person's own reasons for change and can be useful when someone feels stuck or ambivalent.

She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals and notice progress quickly. That approach is practical and goal-oriented, which can be helpful when coping with life transitions or caregiving challenges. Choosing an approach is collaborative; the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels most useful.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging can suit ongoing, brief support between sessions. These options aim to make scheduling easier and to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related constraints.