Hope Victoria Charles,
MBA, M.A., NCC
clinical Counseling, RMHCI

Compassionate • Relational • Trauma-Informed • Family Focused • Certified Art Therapist

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Hope is a compassionate and engaging therapist who believes meaningful healing begins within the safety of a trusting therapeutic relationship. She provides a warm, collaborative, and nonjudgmental space where children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families feel heard, understood, and empowered to create lasting change.

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She is a dedicated mental health professional and National Certified Counselor (NCC) who is passionate about helping individuals, couples, and families strengthen relationships, navigate difficult seasons of life, develop healthier patterns, and experience meaningful personal and relational growth. Her counseling style is compassionate, collaborative, strengths-based, and relational, creating an environment in which clients can feel genuinely heard while also being challenged and supported toward meaningful change.

Hope earned her bachelor’s degree from Hampton University and her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University. Demonstrating an ongoing commitment to advanced clinical education and professional development, Hope is currently a doctoral candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision.

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Her doctoral studies further expand her training in advanced counseling practice, counselor education, clinical supervision, leadership, research, advocacy, and the continued development of the counseling profession.  Hope also holds the distinguished credential of National Certified Counselor (NCC) through the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC).

 

Couples Counseling​

She believes that healing begins within the safety of a trusting therapeutic relationship.

Hope incorporates principles and interventions from the Gottman Method, a research-informed approach to couples therapy designed to strengthen friendship, improve communication, manage conflict more constructively, increase emotional connection, and help couples develop greater shared meaning within their relationship.  She is also a Certified SYMBIS Facilitator (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts). SYMBIS provides couples with a structured framework for exploring important relationship dimensions such as personality, expectations, communication, conflict, finances, intimacy, family background, and shared goals.  This combination allows Hope to work not only with couples experiencing significant distress but also with engaged, premarital, newly married, and established couples who want to intentionally strengthen their relationship before serious difficulties develop.

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Children & Adolescent Counseling

Hope has a special interest in helping children and adolescents develop healthier ways of understanding and expressing their emotions, strengthening confidence, navigating relationships, and communicating their needs.

Children do not always have the vocabulary or developmental ability to sit down and explain what they are experiencing in the same way an adult might. Their feelings may instead emerge through behavior, withdrawal, frustration, changes in relationships, school difficulties, creative expression, or conflict within the family.  For this reason, Hope believes counseling with younger clients should be developmentally appropriate, engaging, relational, and creative.

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Rather than expecting every child to communicate primarily through traditional conversation, Hope can incorporate art, creativity, music-based activities, expressive exercises, visual tools, and age-appropriate therapeutic activities to help children communicate and explore their experiences in ways that feel more natural and accessible.

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Outside of her professional and academic work, Hope values the relationships and experiences that keep life meaningful and balanced. She enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, traveling, and creating music.

Her appreciation for family, creativity, relationships, and continued personal growth complements the relational emphasis she brings into her counseling work.

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Areas of Specialty

• Anxiety & Stress Management

• Depression & Mood Disorders

• Trauma & Trauma Recovery

• Children & Adolescents

• Parenting Support

• Family Therapy

• Couples & Relationship Counseling

• Behavioral Concerns

• Emotional Regulation

• Life Transitions

• Self-Esteem & Identity Development

• Career & Life Direction

• Addiction & Recovery Support

• Communication Skills

• Grief & Loss

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Populations Served

• Young Children

• School-Age Children

• Adolescents

• College Students

• Adults

• Couples

• Parents

• Families                                        Appointments Available Monday–Friday;  Limited Saturday Appointments Available