Charlotte Lajoie , LMHC

Charlotte Lajoie is a licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of experience helping people navigate relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, self-esteem challenges, and major life changes. She works with clients who want practical coaching and support to regain balance and confidence. Her approach is respectful and down-to-earth, aiming to meet each person where they are. Charlotte began her career in a psychiatric hospital and in community mental health before moving into private practice in Florida. That background gave her hands-on experience with a wide range of concerns and ways people cope. She uses modern ideas about the nervous system and present-moment awareness alongside talk therapy. Sessions focus on what matters to the client. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on acceptance-based ideas to build values-driven action. Attachment-focused work helps with abandonment, communication problems, and intimacy concerns. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Her client-centered stance means conversations and plans are tailored to each person’s needs, whether the focus is body image, guilt and shame, chronic illness, or caregiving stress. Charlotte emphasizes simple, practical steps between sessions. She helps people break big problems into manageable actions and develop clearer communication. Clients can expect a compassionate style that balances validation with tools for real change.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Charlotte often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take committed action even when feelings are difficult. ACT can be useful for people facing life changes, chronic pain, or struggles with shame and self-judgment.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to map patterns in relationships and repair mistrust or abandonment wounds. Attachment-focused work helps with communication problems, intimacy concerns, and building more stable connections.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then combine methods that fit the person’s needs. That means sessions might shift between skills work, values-focused exercises, and relational exploration as progress unfolds.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between appointments.