Charlette Forteza

Charlette Forteza is an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa with 17 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on relationship and intimacy concerns, stress and anxiety, parenting and family matters, and navigating life changes including divorce and separation. She also lists life purpose, compassion fatigue, attachment issues, body image, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, narcissism, and self-love among her areas of focus.

Charlette uses mindfulness alongside evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people slow down and notice what matters. Sessions tend to involve practical conversation, grounding practices, and skills you can try between meetings. She aims to help clients untangle patterns that get in the way of clearer choices about work, relationships, and parenting.

Her background includes nearly two decades of work with adults and children in clinical settings. That experience shapes a straightforward style that balances reflection with action. Clients can expect someone who listens for recurring patterns and suggests small experiments to test new ways of relating.

When the topic is life purpose, Charlette encourages stepping back to identify values and options rather than promising a single answer. For relationship and intimacy issues she focuses on communication and attachment patterns that keep problems repeating. For stress and anxiety she brings simple practices to reduce overwhelm and improve focus.

She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. To begin, readers are asked to follow the directory's process to view online therapy options and schedule a first session after completing a short matching questionnaire.

How evidence-based work adapts to online sessions

Charlette pairs mindfulness practices with evidence-based therapeutic techniques. Mindfulness work involves short present-moment exercises that help calm the body and sharpen awareness; this can help with stress, anxiety, and moments of overwhelm. Evidence-based techniques focus on identifying unhelpful patterns in relationships and behavior, then testing small changes to see what helps; these methods are useful for communication problems, attachment concerns, and coping with life transitions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Charlette will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques to try first, adjusting methods as needs and goals become clearer. The clinician-client relationship is practical and exploratory, with frequent check-ins on what is or isn’t working.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm which options are offered before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use audio-only meetings if that better suits concentration or bandwidth. Discuss format preferences during the matching questionnaire and first session so practical arrangements support regular work on life purpose, relationships, and managing stress.