Charnė Buissinne
Compassionate, practical therapy for real-life challenges
About Charnė
Charnė Buissinne uses a client-centred approach to help people make sense of hard moments. She combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. Charnė speaks English and Afrikaans and brings nine years of experience from work in hospitals, independent practice and addiction programmes.
She focuses on common difficulties such as stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports people dealing with addictions, trauma and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Other areas of focus include intimacy issues, eating and body image concerns, parenting strains and career matters. Charnė adapts tools from motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to help people set realistic goals. In practice this means short-term strategies alongside deeper emotional work.
She aims to build on each person’s strengths and sense of agency as sessions progress. Her background includes roles in NHS settings, GP surgeries, educational environments and the criminal justice system. That variety informs a practical style that welcomes different life stories and circumstances.
She writes programmes to fit the needs of the person in front of her rather than applying one set method. People who come to Charnė often want clearer thinking, steadier mood or better ways to manage urges and relationships. Sessions are designed to help people experiment with changes and learn new patterns.
The emphasis is on straightforward conversation, workable steps and steady progress.
What Charnė works with
How Charnė works
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Listed by Charnė among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Using client-centred and practical approaches online
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person and their experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens without judgement and follows the client’s pace, helping people feel understood and naming what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers straightforward strategies to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits, which can help with anxiety, depression and stress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people recognise and work with underlying emotions that affect relationships and self‑worth. In online work this can translate to practising emotional awareness and testing new ways of relating within sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide whether short-term practical tools, deeper emotional work or a mix of both is most useful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as greater scheduling flexibility and easier access from different locations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth, and live chat or text sessions suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on the therapeutic relationship and real progress.
| 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans
