Charlotte Haefner MA, LPC License #C6817

Feeling like your nerves are strung as tight as piano wires is not what you're wanting. Let me help you with that. I have decades of experience working with individuals with anxiety and panic, helping them learn to self-regulate, self-monitor, and turn troublesome thoughts into supportive and affirming ones. I am adept at Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for anxiety and panic, having completed training with the Beck Institute. I integrate mindfulness and psychoeducation into my approach.

CBT focuses on challenging those whirling, repetitive, often unconscious thoughts that can happen throughout the day. Often those thoughts are there to serve and protect us, but when they start to bring us down, start to panic, or feel bad about ourselves with so much inner criticism, it's time to flip the switch on those. But how? CBT is renowned for this. What do you get out of it? You get to feel better. It's also short term and a skill you take with you. For life. How great is that?

Has someone who was important to you recently passed away? Is someone you love in the in the midst of a terminal illness and you find yourself experiencing some grief and grappling with how deeply conflicting this can feel? Did you just break up with a beloved? Whether this loved one was kind and loving to you or not matters little in the realm of processing grief. We each process it in our own unique way, on our own timeline. You don't have to go through this difficult time alone.

What is at the root of one's suffering? Often the source of patterns of emotional distress are unconscious and likely originated in the past. If explored, there is abundant information there that we can utilize to inform what is going on in our lives in present day. At the same time, this process of exploration can lead to deepened understanding and compassion toward ourselves and healing of old unconscious wounds. It is a compassionate illumination of our truest self and deeply impactful.

ACT is a type of psychotherapy that emphasizes acceptance as a way to deal with negative thoughts, feelings, symptoms, or circumstances versus trying to eliminate or change them. It also encourages increased commitment to healthy, constructive activities that uphold your values or goals to help improve a better balance both internally and externally.