Charnelle Cook , LPC

Charnelle Cook is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with seven years of practice experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and family concerns. Her style emphasizes each person’s strengths and building on what is already working in their life.

Charnelle practices with a person-centered approach that lets clients guide the pace and focus of sessions. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try practical steps to change it. Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas often appear in her work to help with coping and short-term goal setting.

She has a Master of Arts in Counseling from George Washington University and completed undergraduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Those educational foundations inform her practical, straightforward approach to therapy. Charnelle values autonomy and helps clients find strategies that fit their daily life.

People turn to her for support with trauma and abuse, grief, anger, career questions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, body image, and mood disorders among other issues. She also addresses family of origin concerns, codependency, and feelings of isolation or shame. Her practice blends longer-term work with brief problem-solving when that suits a client’s needs.

Sessions can include discussion, thought-focused exercises, mindfulness practice, and developing small achievable steps. Charnelle aims to help people notice strengths, test new behaviors, and make manageable changes over time. She communicates promptly and supports practical scheduling for clients.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Charnelle uses client-centered work to let the person set the session agenda and pace, whether by video, phone, chat, or text. This approach helps focus on what matters most to the client and allows them to guide progress toward their goals.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and low self-esteem by breaking problems into concrete steps and practicing different ways of thinking and acting.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. She will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust strategies over time based on what proves most helpful.

Online formats offer practical benefits for fitting therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well if bandwidth or camera use is a concern, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill practice, or between-session contact. These options make it easier to keep consistent work on goals while accommodating different schedules and communication styles.