About Cicely
Cicely Charlson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 11 years of experience in mental health. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family tensions, trauma and abuse, anger, parenting strain, and ADHD. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people find clearer thinking and calmer days.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. Cicely has worked in outpatient settings and provided services in people’s homes, so she is familiar with different life situations and routines.
Background and approach
She also has experience supporting people with depression and some work with mild autism. Cicely emphasizes practical skills for everyday life. Sessions include learning coping tools, practicing new communication ways, and planning small steps toward goals.
She frames therapy as a partnership where the client’s choices and pace guide the work. <brHer own story informs her approach. Growing up with poor communication and anger, she learned healthier coping and now teaches those skills to others. That background often helps her connect with people who want to break patterns and build better habits.
Many people come to her wanting more peace, clearer decision making, and steadier emotions. In sessions she focuses on concrete changes - breathing and grounding techniques, thought tracking, problem-solving, and role-played conversations - to make daily life feel more manageable.
Practical Approaches and How Online Therapy Fits
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It breaks problems into specific patterns and teaches skills to change thinking and actions, which can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD-related challenges.Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a trauma-focused approach that helps people examine and reframe unhelpful beliefs tied to traumatic events. It aims to reduce trauma-related distress by practicing new ways of thinking about the event and its impact.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Cicely will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adjusts tools and homework so they fit what someone can realistically practice between sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, try tools in the moment, or fit sessions into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, parenting, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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