- 21 years experience
- Focus on depression
- Sexual and gender diverse
About Charles
Dr. Charles Hoy-Ellis is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who helps people facing depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, and issues related to sexual and gender diversity. He practices from Washington and brings more than 21 years of experience in community and private settings. He aims to meet people where they are and explore the everyday patterns that keep them stuck.
He thinks about problems as shaped by both personal history and social forces. That means depression or shame often links to life events and ongoing pressures from the world around us. In sessions he pays attention to how past experiences created habits and beliefs, then looks at how those habits work now.
His core perspective is psychodynamic and phenomenological - a way of noticing how unconscious motives and the meanings people make shape behavior. He also draws from cognitive behavioral, narrative, and rational-emotive-behavioral practices when they fit the work at hand. He does not use a single method for everyone.
He often supports people from sexual and gender diverse communities and brings awareness of how social forces like heterosexism affect well-being. He also addresses related concerns such as guilt, shame, loneliness, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose.
Dr. Hoy-Ellis describes his role as walking alongside clients rather than labeling them. He helps people look at what happened to them, understand the meaning they made, and try different ways of living that feel more useful now.
He thinks about problems as shaped by both personal history and social forces. That means depression or shame often links to life events and ongoing pressures from the world around us. In sessions he pays attention to how past experiences created habits and beliefs, then looks at how those habits work now.
His core perspective is psychodynamic and phenomenological - a way of noticing how unconscious motives and the meanings people make shape behavior. He also draws from cognitive behavioral, narrative, and rational-emotive-behavioral practices when they fit the work at hand. He does not use a single method for everyone.
He often supports people from sexual and gender diverse communities and brings awareness of how social forces like heterosexism affect well-being. He also addresses related concerns such as guilt, shame, loneliness, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose.
Dr. Hoy-Ellis describes his role as walking alongside clients rather than labeling them. He helps people look at what happened to them, understand the meaning they made, and try different ways of living that feel more useful now.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.