Dr. Charity Rolfes, LCP

Dr. Charity Rolfes is a Virginia licensed clinician with 25 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and trauma. She also supports issues like parenting strain, eating concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her work includes helping clients with attachment and abandonment worries, communication problems, and body image struggles. Dr. Rolfes centers the therapeutic relationship in her work. She aims to create a respectful, compassionate, and nonjudgmental atmosphere so people can talk about painful experiences. She prioritizes listening first, then designing a plan together that fits the person’s goals and life situation. Her approach draws from several psychotherapies. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person, cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and dialectical behavior strategies to build coping skills. She also incorporates mindfulness practices and elements of Jungian and psychodynamic thinking when those perspectives help. Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions focus on concrete steps, coping strategies, and understanding patterns that keep problems going. She also pays attention to cultural background, neurodiversity, military experience, sexual orientation, and spiritual beliefs when they matter to the work. To begin, she asks about goals and personal history, then they choose techniques that fit. People who work with her can expect direct conversation, skill-building, and an emphasis on finding stronger relationships and a more meaningful everyday life.

How her approaches can work in online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what the person finds most important. It’s about building trust, reflecting concerns back, and helping people clarify their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship-related worries. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that can help with intense emotions and communication challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

If you are considering online work, confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins when needed. It can also let people use mindfulness or behavioral exercises in their everyday settings, and it supports ongoing skill practice between sessions.