About Charles
Charles Koah is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia. He brings 30 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. He uses a straightforward, respectful approach to help people facing difficult life changes.
He works with individuals on relationship strain, motivation, self-esteem, and career concerns. He also supports people dealing with addictions, grief, trauma, sleeping problems, and intimacy-related issues. Charles has experience with workplace stress and financial strain as well as concerns related to LGBT identity and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Charles adapts the way he talks and plans work to fit each person. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps a person can try between meetings. He also offers executive and professional coaching for people aiming to improve work performance and career direction.
Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental tone and a direct style that emphasizes problem solving and real-world adjustments. He aims to help people notice patterns, try small changes, and build on what works. That approach is useful for everyday anxiety, coping with big life transitions, and ongoing challenges like ADHD symptoms.
Over three decades, Charles has helped many people move toward more satisfying routines and relationships. He encourages people to take the first step and will support them through the process of change.
Evidence-based approaches and online counseling options
Charles uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical changes and coping skills. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and low mood; this helps people manage daily stress and task-related focus. Another approach centers on problem-solving and behavioral planning to improve routines, sleep, and organization, which can be helpful for work, ADHD-related challenges, and managing addictive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's life and adjust course as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping care consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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