Charlotte Windom, LPC

Charlotte Windom is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Alabama who brings 16 years of clinical experience to her work with individuals, families, and couples. She approaches therapy with kindness, support, and a practical focus on healing, drawing on both personal insight and professional training to guide people through stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, anger, depression, and major life transitions. Her practice also addresses specific concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, communication and control issues, divorce and separation, emptiness, family-of-origin difficulties, fatherhood issues, forgiveness, guilt, and shame.

Windom earned a BS in Human Services with a minor in Psychology, graduating cum laude from Troy University, and holds an MS in Counseling Psychology. She is a member of Chi Sigma Iota and has been recognized on the National Dean's List and the Provost's List. Over the course of her career she has worked in diverse settings including private practice, community mental health, Auburn University’s Student Counseling & Psychological Services, juvenile probation court liaison work, Coffee County Family Services, and the Pike County Child Advocacy Center.

Her professional roles have included program coordination for child and adolescent day treatment and delivering a range of services such as individual, family, couples, in-home, group, and crisis counseling for children, teens, college students, and adults. One notable professional accomplishment was creating and implementing the Jackson County Child/Adolescent Day Treatment Program at Mountain Lakes Behavioral Healthcare in 2009, a program that reached its tenth anniversary in 2019. Windom combines education, training, and real-world experience to support clients as they work toward meaningful change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Charlotte Windom integrates evidence-based methods into online sessions to help clients build coping skills and clarify values. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that align with personal values - it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by encouraging meaningful behavior even when emotions are uncomfortable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and related behaviors, making it useful for managing stress, anxiety, anger, and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship in which the therapist listens deeply and helps clients explore their own solutions, which can benefit those facing relationship, identity, or self-esteem challenges.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Windom works collaboratively with each person to determine which combination of methods best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts strategies over time based on client feedback and progress.

Online therapy with Windom is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules, mobility limitations, or those who prefer remote care. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and access support from familiar locations while working toward practical, achievable goals with a licensed professional.