With over twenty years experience I offer the support, guidance and skills needed to assist others in facing and overcoming the difficulties and struggles inevitable in our lives. I view counselling as a journey; walking with others in exploring sources of the emotional pain and suffering that is way too common for so many, and as important, guiding them in applying practical skills and techniques that will enable recovery and moving toward the potential they may have lost sight of. Counselling is about renewing hope that healing is possible and that better days are coming.
I believe each counselling session should include a Person Centered approach which emphasizes the vital importance of unconditional acceptance and deep empathy as the foundation in creating a safe and open environment for you to explore your concerns and struggles. I also am a strong believer in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which will help you to identify and challenge unproductive patterns of behavior and unhelpful thinking that can perpetuate your struggles and stressors and then assist you in learning and applying practical skills and techniques that will enable you to move toward healing and wholeness. I also like to use Schema Based Therapy which will explore sources of your unhealthy core beliefs that may have affected how you define yourself and how this may be affecting the various relationships in your life.
My experience includes working with children and teens with behavioral and emotional difficulties, leading drug court and community sentencing programs for those referred by the courts, facilitating a program for domestic violence perpetrators. I served as a clinical director of a private counselling agency in Oklahoma. More recently I worked in a hospital setting on the acute adolescent unit and most recently I was working with adults in an intensive outpatient day treatment.
I was Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Oklahoma, which is a qualification required to practice as a counsellor with each state overseeing the professional standards. Now, having recently moved the UK, I am a registered member of British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP).
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, ADHD, Abandonment, Attachment issues, Avoidant Personality, Blended Family Issues, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication problems, Divorce and separation, Emptiness, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Fatherhood Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Military and Veterans Issues, Mood disorders , Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Self-Harm, Self-love, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Social anxiety and phobia, Workplace issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy
BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP #390218
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He is an amaizing therapist
Written on Apr 13, 2024 after therapy with Charlie for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, sleeping disorders, self esteem, and coping with life changes
Charlie is patient, considerate and super knowledgeable,
Written on Jan 05, 2024 after therapy with Charlie for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and trauma and abuse
Charlie is extremely knowledgeable and you can tell he brings a lot of experience to a session. He helped explain what was going on in the brain when I was experiencing certain emotions and gave me a lot of scientifically backed techniques to help with them. He provides plenty of useful and relevant resources that I found very helpful. He has a calm and non-judgemental demeanor. Very reliable. Many of the tools he has shown me have proven to be very effective in managing my emotions. I highly recommend him.
Written on Dec 05, 2023 after therapy with Charlie for 3 weeks on issues concerning anger management, and bipolar disorder
I had a short weekly therapy course with Charlie lasting approximately 4 months to get through a difficult time and try to change some of the ways I approach life matters. I was comfortable with Charlie. He was very helpful in asking good questions and challenging me to see things in a different light. I found him to be an excellent therapist. I’m now closer to being the kind of guy I wanna be and I’ll keep trying.
Written on Jan 23, 2023 after therapy with Charlie for 3 months on issues concerning addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and adhd
Charlie is a highly competent counselor and was instrumental in being a good guide along my journey to healing and bettering myself and situations I was focusing on. I've since made remarkable improvements in the areas of interest. He is a patient, kind guide who has a good steady hand in the alliance. He's not overbearing, but understanding, kind and allows for the integrity of the individual. His advice in areas I was working on was very helpful and I used it to experience good effects in my relating and new understandings.
Written on Jan 17, 2023 after therapy with Charlie for 10 months
Charlie clearly has extensive experience and a broad knowledge of tools and techniques that proved invaluable in helping me. This included discussing both current challenges and events of my past that may still have impact on the present. He provided clear guidance in the use of techniques to establish what my aims were with mental wellbeing and personal development, plus was very encouraging as we made good progress together. As a result I have overcome some significant obstacles and have experienced a clear improvement in my quality of life and thinking.
Written on Nov 04, 2022 after therapy with Charlie for 3 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, self esteem, career difficulties, and coaching