Charlotte Hand
Compassionate counsellor for trauma and life stress
About Charlotte
Charlotte Hand supports people experiencing stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship strain, grief and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also helps with parenting pressures, sleeping problems, career worries, self-esteem and identity concerns, including LGBT-related issues. Charlotte works with practical and deeper issues, aiming to help people feel steadier and more able to manage day-to-day life.
Charlotte is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has five years of experience and continues regular professional supervision and ongoing training.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with adult survivors of sexual violence, abuse, trauma and post-traumatic stress. She blends different approaches to match each person's needs. In sessions she offers a respectful, non-judgemental space.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to what feels comfortable. People can expect to look at current problems and also patterns from the past that affect how they cope now. Charlotte draws on client-centred listening, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, solution-focused techniques and trauma-focused work.
She uses straightforward tools and reflective conversation to help people build coping skills and make changes that stick. Therapy can be short term or longer term depending on goals. Sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Charlotte works from the United Kingdom and holds BACP membership as her listed credential.
What Charlotte works with
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Sessions & fees
Practical approaches for online therapy
Charlotte commonly uses client-centred work and trauma-focused therapy online. Client-centred therapy involves careful listening and reflecting back what matters to you, which helps build trust and clarity about goals. Trauma-focused work concentrates on reducing the ongoing impact of past hurt and teaching coping skills to manage flashbacks, dissociation or intense reactions.She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to help during online sessions. Mindfulness teaches simple breathing and attention skills to reduce overwhelm and improve sleep. Solution-focused methods help identify small, practical steps to change day-to-day patterns and reach short-term goals.
Finding the right mix is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit your situation. That collaborative process means adjustments can be made as you go until the right fit is found.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you see facial cues and hold a longer session. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for written reflection and quick updates between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
