Charles Nwaoha
Practical counselling for life and relationships
About Charles
Charles Nwaoha is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. He brings five years of professional experience and works under the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps toward change.
Charles sees counselling as a shared journey. He begins by finding out why someone has come to therapy now. He also highlights strengths and what is already working in a person’s life before focusing on change.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and grounded. Charles uses attentive listening, gentle challenge and encouragement to help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping. He aims to make sessions easy to follow and relevant to day-to-day life.
Common concerns he addresses include relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. He also works with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, fatherhood concerns, guilt and shame, and post-traumatic stress. Charles draws on a mix of approaches to fit the person in front of him.
These include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, psychodynamic ideas, client-centred ways of working and brief solution-focused techniques. He helps people identify goals and practical steps to move toward them.
What Charles works with
How Charles works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and take action toward what matters to them. It is useful for depression, low self-worth and ongoing anxiety. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is focused on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and testing small experiments to change them; this can help with social anxiety, phobias and mood difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, pace and preferences. This means adjusting techniques over time and keeping the plan practical and goal oriented.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when that helps, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing support and brief reflections between calls. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
