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[![Reclaim Trauma Therapy](/__l5e/assets-v1/19256a02-c93a-4fb7-827c-85c90113de5b/reclaim-logo.png)](/)

[Meet Charle](/meet-charle)[How ART Works](/how-art-works)

[What I Treat](/what-art-treats)

-   [Acute and Complex Trauma](/what-art-treats/acute-and-complex-trauma)
-   [PTSD](/what-art-treats/ptsd)
-   [Single-Incident Trauma](/what-art-treats/single-incident-trauma)
-   [Phobias](/what-art-treats/phobias)
-   [Medical, Dental and Needle Fear](/what-art-treats/medical-and-dental-fear)
-   [Car Accidents and Driving Anxiety](/what-art-treats/car-accidents-and-driving-anxiety)
-   [Grief and Sudden Loss](/what-art-treats/grief-and-sudden-loss)
-   [Anxiety](/what-art-treats/anxiety)
-   [OCD](/what-art-treats/ocd)
-   [Emotion Regulation](/what-art-treats/emotion-regulation)

[Who I Work With](/who-i-work-with)

-   [First Responders](/who-i-work-with/first-responders)
-   [Veterans](/who-i-work-with/veterans)
-   [EMTs, ER and Healthcare Workers](/who-i-work-with/healthcare-workers)
-   [Therapists](/who-i-work-with/therapists)
-   [Doctors](/who-i-work-with/doctors)
-   [Corporate Leaders](/who-i-work-with/corporate-leaders)

[ART Intensives](/art-intensives)

[Locations](/locations)

-   [Kentucky](/locations/kentucky)
-   [Ohio](/locations/ohio)

[Rates](/rates)[For Clinicians](/for-clinicians)[Contact](/contact)[Schedule a consultation](https://calendly.com/reclaimtraumatherapy/freeconsultation)

Meet Charle

# Twenty years watching this from the other side.

I spent nearly two decades as an educator before I became a therapist. Most of what I understand about stress and behavior, I learned there first.

![Calm open water at first light](/assets/card-water-96jb-JgV.jpg)

![Charle Peck, LCSW, seated in warm natural light](/__l5e/assets-v1/b149f5f4-5e3a-4917-b070-680a6d67ba21/charle-portrait.png)

## The Problem I Kept Running Into

For years I watched capable people struggle with high stress, self-doubt, avoidance and emotional reactions that other adults misread as defiance, disengagement or a lack of effort. I was certain there was more beneath the behavior. I did not have the clinical language to explain it.

Training as a clinician gave me that language. Behavior is very often a response to stress and to a nervous system trying to protect someone. But it also sharpened the problem rather than solving it, because I kept meeting people who could describe exactly why they reacted the way they did and still could not change what was happening on an ordinary day.

## Why I Trained in ART, and Why I Built This

Losing my closest friend to cancer made the gap between understanding and change feel less academic. It reinforced something obvious that is easy to forget: time is finite, and spending years managing something you could resolve is a real cost.

That is what led me to specialized training in [Accelerated Resolution Therapy](/how-art-works) and to founding Reclaim Trauma Therapy. The aim is narrow and practical: reduce the ongoing impact of what happened, strengthen your trust in yourself, and give you back a greater sense of control, so that you spend less of your life managing the past and more of it living.

![Charle Peck, LCSW, writing at a desk beside a sunlit window](/__l5e/assets-v1/2d52e72c-face-4d07-9357-52cb4647b555/charle-desk.jpg)

## Warm, Open, and Direct About What I Think

You will find me practical. I will tell you what I think is driving the symptoms, what I would suggest we target, and what I expect that to involve. If I do not think a particular approach fits, I will say so rather than trying it because it is what I am trained in.

I work with adults who are actively participating in their own treatment. That is not a requirement I apply to be difficult. It is simply where this kind of focused work does well.

Credentials

Licenses

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Kentucky · Licensed Independent Social Worker, Ohio

Education

MSW · M.Ed.

Training

Accelerated Resolution Therapy · Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) · Cognitive behavioral therapy · OCD treatment, brain-based approach

Risk assessment

CAMS-care · ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) · safeTALK

Also

Family Studies Specialist

Delivery

Secure telehealth for adults in Kentucky and Ohio

## Start with a free fifteen-minute consultation.

A free, confidential fifteen-minute conversation. Ask whatever you want about ART and about how I work. There is no obligation to book anything afterwards, and no pressure if you decide the timing is not right.

[Schedule a free consultation](https://calendly.com/reclaimtraumatherapy/freeconsultation)[Read about ART](/how-art-works)

![Reclaim Trauma Therapy](/__l5e/assets-v1/19256a02-c93a-4fb7-827c-85c90113de5b/reclaim-logo.png)

Reclaim Trauma Therapy

Focused, practical trauma therapy for adults. Accelerated Resolution Therapy and extended ART intensives, by secure video in Kentucky and Ohio.

Charle Peck, LCSW, LISW, M.Ed.

Practice

-   [Meet Charle](/meet-charle)
-   [Rates & Policies](/rates)
-   [For Referring Clinicians](/for-clinicians)
-   [Contact](/contact)

Treatment

-   [How ART Works](/how-art-works)
-   [ART Intensives](/art-intensives)
-   [Is ART Right for Me?](/is-art-right-for-me)
-   [Frequently Asked Questions](/faq)
-   [Writing](/blog)

What I Treat

-   [Acute and Complex Trauma](/what-art-treats/acute-and-complex-trauma)
-   [PTSD](/what-art-treats/ptsd)
-   [Phobias](/what-art-treats/phobias)
-   [Anxiety](/what-art-treats/anxiety)
-   [OCD](/what-art-treats/ocd)
-   [All Conditions](/what-art-treats)

Who I Work With

-   [First Responders](/who-i-work-with/first-responders)
-   [Veterans](/who-i-work-with/veterans)
-   [EMTs, ER and Healthcare Workers](/who-i-work-with/healthcare-workers)
-   [Therapists](/who-i-work-with/therapists)
-   [Doctors](/who-i-work-with/doctors)
-   [Corporate Leaders](/who-i-work-with/corporate-leaders)
-   [Who I Work With](/who-i-work-with)

Serving

-   [Kentucky](/locations/kentucky)
-   [Ohio](/locations/ohio)
-   [Where I Practice](/locations)

This practice is not a crisis or emergency service, and messages are not monitored around the clock. If you are in immediate danger, experiencing a mental health emergency, or having thoughts of ending your life with intent or a plan, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room for an assessment. Veterans can press 1 after dialing 988.

Contacting this practice does not establish a client relationship. Individual outcomes vary. Nothing on this site guarantees a specific clinical result.

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