Charlie Bassett
Supportive counsellor using practical therapies
About Charlie
Charlie Bassett helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and relationship or family difficulties. He also supports those facing parenting strains, anger, low self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, bipolar challenges, ADHD and career-related stress. He uses practical methods and steady support to help people find clearer ways forward.
Charlie draws on 25 years of practice to combine warm listening with evidence-informed techniques. He places a strong emphasis on a person-centred stance that offers acceptance and empathy.
Background and approach
That creates space for someone to talk through painful experiences and confusing feelings without fear of judgement. Alongside an empathic approach, Charlie uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try out new behaviours. He also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values.
He brings elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Jungian ideas when they fit the person’s needs. Charlie has experience across a wide range of settings, including specialist work with young people, court-referred programmes, domestic violence interventions, and hospital-based adolescent services. More recently he worked with adults in an intensive outpatient day programme.
He moved to the United Kingdom after a long career in the US and is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP. Charlie offers sessions in English by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging and aims to match practical skills to each person’s life circumstances.
What Charlie works with
How Charlie works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches in online counselling and what they do
Charlie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing small actions that match what matters to them. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviour patterns. CBT is practical for stress, mood difficulties, addictions and many everyday problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through a person's goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest methods to try. Decisions about approach are made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different lives. Video calls let people see facial cues and work in depth, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins and text messaging can suit ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, parenting and other commitments, and to keep continuity of care when travel or mobility is difficult.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
