Charlie Bassett, BACP

Charlie Bassett brings 25 years of clinical experience to his counselling practice, offering steady support, practical tools, and empathic guidance to people facing a wide range of life challenges. He frames counselling as a shared journey - accompanying clients as they explore sources of emotional pain and learning alongside them to apply skills that restore functioning and hope.

Charlie emphasizes a person-centered ethos that places unconditional acceptance and deep empathy at the heart of each session, creating space for honest reflection and emotional exploration. He also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, and he uses schema-focused work to uncover and address persistent core beliefs that influence self-definition and relationships. Together these approaches aim to combine compassionate listening with practical strategies for recovery and growth.

His background includes work with children and adolescents with behavioural and emotional difficulties, leadership of drug court and community sentencing programmes, and facilitation of interventions for domestic violence perpetrators. He has served as a clinical director of a private counselling agency in Oklahoma and has worked on an acute adolescent hospital unit as well as in intensive outpatient day treatment for adults. Having recently moved to the United Kingdom, Charlie is a registered member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP), the professional body for counsellors in the UK.

Therapeutic approaches and online access

Charlie commonly draws on client-centered therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to support online clients. Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an accepting, empathic space where the client leads the exploration and the therapist provides nonjudgmental understanding - this approach helps with self-esteem, relationship concerns, grief, and emotional processing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers structured ways to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, teaching practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, stress, and anger.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Charlie works collaboratively with each person to choose and adapt methods that fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances, adjusting interventions as progress and needs evolve.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives. These options allow clients to access registered professionals from home or other convenient locations, choose the format that feels most comfortable, and maintain continuity of care when schedules or circumstances change.