Carlotta "Charly" Valdez, LMFT

Carlotta "Charly" Valdez is a California-licensed LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) with four years of professional experience supporting people through a range of emotional challenges. She works with individuals facing stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and the process of coping with grief and loss. Her practice also addresses self-esteem concerns and a range of related issues including abandonment, attachment struggles, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, questions of life purpose, post-traumatic stress, self-love, social anxiety and phobia, and women’s issues.

Charly approaches each person as the expert of their own story and recognizes the strengths someone already has to navigate hard moments. She views the decision to seek change as an act of courage and aims to provide support and empowerment as people take steps toward a more fulfilling and happier life. Her work centers on helping clients build skills, process painful experiences, and strengthen relationships while honoring each person’s values and goals.

Clients can expect a collaborative process in which Charly listens for what matters most, highlights existing resources, and partners with them to find practical, compassionate ways forward.

Evidence-Based Care and Online Options

Charly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the concerns a person brings. She employs skills-focused interventions that help regulate stress and anxiety by teaching practical tools for managing worry, improving sleep, and reducing overwhelming symptoms. She also uses trauma-informed methods to help people process experiences of trauma and abuse and to support healing from grief and post-traumatic stress. In work around relationships and attachment, she draws on strategies that improve communication, rebuild trust, and address patterns tied to abandonment or attachment wounds.

Determining the right therapeutic approach is part of the collaborative work. Carlotta partners with each person to identify goals, consider what feels most helpful, and adjust methods as progress unfolds so care fits the client’s needs and preferences.

Online therapy with Carlotta is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access consistent support from licensed professionals while balancing work, family, and other commitments, and they allow therapy to continue even when life circumstances change.