Charlotte Houghton
Clear, warm counselling for life changes
About Charlotte
Charlotte Houghton is a counsellor with four years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Charlotte uses clear, direct language and brings a warm, honest presence to sessions.
She aims to help people make their own decisions and find practical ways to move forward. She combines client-centred work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which she uses to help people face difficult feelings and notice what matters to them.
Background and approach
Charlotte often explores links between current behaviours and childhood experiences to build useful insight. She draws on lived experience of family neurodiversity and long-term illness when relevant. Clients have come to her for help with stress, anxiety, grief and depression, as well as relationship and parenting concerns.
She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, anger, career changes, ADHD and coping with life transitions. Additional focus areas include body image, attachment issues, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Charlotte is approachable and non-judgemental in session.
She uses metaphors and simple visual language to make things easier to understand. She will ask direct questions when needed and offers practical worksheets or email follow-up for clients who want extra materials between meetings. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
International clients are not currently accepted. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to therapist availability.
What Charlotte works with
How Charlotte works
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Sessions & fees
How Charlotte’s approaches work in online therapy
Charlotte uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then commit to actions that reflect their values. This approach suits people dealing with anxiety, grief, chronic illness and changes in life direction.She also uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on offering empathy, acceptance and honest reflection so clients feel heard. That style helps when someone needs a steady, non-judgemental space to process difficult experiences and build self-understanding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Charlotte will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and adapt techniques accordingly. The choice of method is collaborative and reviewed as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversational feel, phone calls suit those who prefer not to be on camera and text or live chat can work well for brief check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments and allow sessions to continue when travel would be 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
