CEO, Founder, & Therapist
Charlece "Charlie" Bishop is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with a passion to help create change in you. She has worked with clients transitioning into corporate America, relational or marital issues, anxiety, depression, and issues with self-esteem. Charlie has a passion for eating disorders and aims to bring awareness to the Black community.
Charlie provides a safe space for you to be vulnerable while learning skills to create change. She believe that change comes in the form of desire and dedication met with thoughts and emotions. Charlie's clients often enter therapy for the first time confused, and unsure how to handle life. Charlie teaches how to manage and cope with chaos, process childhood memories, and work through uncomfortable emotions.
Charlie provides a safe space for you to be vulnerable while learning skills to create change. She believe that change comes in the form of desire and dedication met with thoughts and emotions. Charlie's clients often enter therapy for the first time confused, and unsure how to handle life. Charlie teaches how to manage and cope with chaos, process childhood memories, and work through uncomfortable emotions.
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My Education and Memberships:
University of Alabama - Master's of Human Development and Family Studies University of South Alabama - Bachelor's of Science (Psychology) Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated - Member American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy - Member Alabama Marriage and Family Therapy Network - Member Couples and Intimate Relationships Network - Member International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals - Member African-American Eating Disorders Professional Committee - |
SPECIALTIES
Clinical approaches:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Solution-Focused Therapy |
Also experienced in:
Family conflicts, Parenting issues, Anger management, Depression, Coping with life changes, Body Image, Caregiver Issues and Stress, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication Problems, Control Issues, Divorce and Separation, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Family Problems, Guilt and Shame, Infidelity, Isolation/Loneliness, Life Purpose, Mood Disorders, Multicultural Concerns, Self-Love, Women's Issues, Workplace Issues, and Young Adult Issues
Family conflicts, Parenting issues, Anger management, Depression, Coping with life changes, Body Image, Caregiver Issues and Stress, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication Problems, Control Issues, Divorce and Separation, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Family Problems, Guilt and Shame, Infidelity, Isolation/Loneliness, Life Purpose, Mood Disorders, Multicultural Concerns, Self-Love, Women's Issues, Workplace Issues, and Young Adult Issues
Billing Specialist
Lisa Cossentino-Miller is excited to join the team of CR Counseling. She began a career studying music and earning her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Performance. After performing and teaching privately for a few years, she moved on to admin work for a counseling office. From 2016 to present, she has worked as a Front Desk Admin as well as an Insurance Billing and Credentialing Specialist. She enjoys assisting Private Practice owners with their billing and administrative needs. When Lisa is not working, she spends time with her husband and 2 dogs.
Virtual Assistant
Desarea “Des” Waller is a native Birmingham woman who has over 5 years experience with finding natural remedies and tools for coping with anxiety while enduring life’s transitions. She began her studies at Art Institute of Atlanta, where she majored in fashion merchandising, but shortly after, life humbled her back home where she moved into an entirely new person, a mom, and there were so many stressors that came along with that.
While raising her son, Des lost sight of her passion and decided to find a career more suitable to provide stability for her family, so she picked back up her studies and pursued a degree in computer science at Virginia College in Birmingham, AL. She felt as if she had all the materialistic necessities she saw fit, but there was still something missing, so she started going to therapy, which has a negative stigma within her community, but this place provided so much comfort and gave her a vision to a clearer path; Des was no longer “surviving,” but she began to LIVE within her own rights and happiness.
It is said when you heal yourself, you heal seven generations ahead of you and seven generations back, and through healing herself, Des became a better person for her family. She is extremely grateful for the journey which she awoke from just existing, and is happy to be a part of the team.
While raising her son, Des lost sight of her passion and decided to find a career more suitable to provide stability for her family, so she picked back up her studies and pursued a degree in computer science at Virginia College in Birmingham, AL. She felt as if she had all the materialistic necessities she saw fit, but there was still something missing, so she started going to therapy, which has a negative stigma within her community, but this place provided so much comfort and gave her a vision to a clearer path; Des was no longer “surviving,” but she began to LIVE within her own rights and happiness.
It is said when you heal yourself, you heal seven generations ahead of you and seven generations back, and through healing herself, Des became a better person for her family. She is extremely grateful for the journey which she awoke from just existing, and is happy to be a part of the team.
Social Media Intern
Destyni Cravens is a first-generation college student and is a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) double majoring in Psychology and Sociology. She is also obtaining her Master's in Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in Health Behavior at UAB. Destyni's experience living with her mother who had biploar disorder is what initially encouraged her to learn more about mental health through her coursework. Destyni serves as CR Counseling's Social Media Intern!
Destyni is involved in several student-led mental health promotion organizations on UAB's campus. She is the Communications Coordinating lead for the UAB Mental Health Ambassadors (MHA), an outreach chair for Active Minds at UAB, and serves on the UAB Student Counseling Services (SCS) Student Advisory Board. Destyni has recently started her own student organization at UAB called It's On Us at UAB, which is a peer-to-peer sexual assault prevention education model that empowers students to teach one another at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
In addition to her involvement with these organizations, she conducts research at UAB's Child Development Lab and serves as a teaching assistant for both undergraduate and graduate courses at UAB. Her research interests include topics such as parentification, role reversal, family roles, and art therapy. Destyni aims to graduate in the Spring of 2022 from UAB and then obtain her PhD in Child Clinical Psychology in hopes of becoming a Certified Clinical Child Psychologist.
Destyni is involved in several student-led mental health promotion organizations on UAB's campus. She is the Communications Coordinating lead for the UAB Mental Health Ambassadors (MHA), an outreach chair for Active Minds at UAB, and serves on the UAB Student Counseling Services (SCS) Student Advisory Board. Destyni has recently started her own student organization at UAB called It's On Us at UAB, which is a peer-to-peer sexual assault prevention education model that empowers students to teach one another at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
In addition to her involvement with these organizations, she conducts research at UAB's Child Development Lab and serves as a teaching assistant for both undergraduate and graduate courses at UAB. Her research interests include topics such as parentification, role reversal, family roles, and art therapy. Destyni aims to graduate in the Spring of 2022 from UAB and then obtain her PhD in Child Clinical Psychology in hopes of becoming a Certified Clinical Child Psychologist.
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