Charlotte Hand, BACP

Charlotte Hand is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship worries. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting strain, sleep disruption, self-esteem concerns and the impact of chronic illness. Charlotte works with a broad range of life challenges, including career pressures and compassion fatigue.

She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what matters to them. Sessions focus on the person’s goals and move at a pace that feels comfortable. The aim is to build practical tools to manage day-to-day difficulties as well as deeper, longer-standing concerns.

Charlotte draws on several approaches to tailor work to each person. She uses client-centred ways of listening, psychodynamic ideas about past patterns, mindfulness practices for managing distress, and solution-focused thinking to spot small changes that help. Trauma-focused methods are also part of her practice when trauma is central to the presenting issue.

She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which guides her practice and professional standards. Charlotte has five years’ experience and takes part in regular professional supervision and ongoing training.

Charlotte offers both shorter and longer-term therapy and aims to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How Charlotte’s approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on giving people space to speak and feel heard rather than on the therapist directing the work; it can help when someone needs to make sense of emotions or decisions. Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and aid sleep problems or anxiety symptoms. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the effects of past harm and aims to help people reduce distress linked to those memories and build coping strategies.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Charlotte will talk with each person about goals, history and preferences, and then suggest ways of working to try. The choice of methods is collaborative and can change as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help if someone prefers not to be on camera or needs a lower-bandwidth option, but please check which formats the therapist is offering when you arrange your first appointment.