Charlotte Crawford, BACP

Charlotte Crawford is a Scottish psychotherapist who brings decades of caring professional experience to her work, including 12 years practising specifically as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist. She is a BACP member - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and is also qualified to counsel children and young people.

Her clinical background includes nursing and extensive experience supporting people affected by alcohol and drug issues, and she has worked with clients facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, addictions, trauma and abuse, and grief and loss. She draws on that varied experience to offer practical, empathetic support for a wide range of life challenges, from parenting and caregiver stress to coping with major life changes and compassion fatigue.

Charlotte uses an integrative approach tailored to each person's needs, blending Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with transactional analysis, humanistic ideas, mindfulness practices, vagus nerve techniques, some NLP, and acceptance and commitment approaches. She aims to foster an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored, and she focuses on equipping people with tools that help them become their own ongoing resource. Taking the first step can take courage, and she welcomes enquiries from those ready to begin the work of change. "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" - Max Planck

Approaches Charlotte Uses for Online Therapy

Charlotte Crawford draws on several evidence-informed approaches to tailor work to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns in thoughts and behaviors and developing practical strategies to change them - it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and build psychological flexibility, supporting work with difficult emotions, grief, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns of relating and early bonds to help address relationship difficulties, abandonment issues, and long-standing emotional wounds.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Charlotte works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. She adapts techniques as needed so therapy remains relevant and practical.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access registered professionals from varied locations and can support continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult, while preserving the same therapeutic aims of skill building, emotional exploration, and long-term coping.