Charlotte Houghton, BACP

Counsellor Charlotte Houghton is a BACP member with four years' experience. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self‑esteem and depression, and has a particular focus on compassion fatigue, relationship and family concerns, parenting, ADHD and trauma and abuse. Sessions are conducted in English and she practises in the United Kingdom.

Charlotte uses a direct and clear manner in sessions. She brings her personality into the room, uses simple images or metaphors to describe difficult thoughts, and will use humour when it seems helpful. She does not give instructions about what to do; instead she helps people make their own decisions and consider changes they want to try.

Her background includes work with people bereaved by sudden death or suicide. That experience shapes how she asks straightforward questions, and how she brings feelings into discussion so clients can work towards accepting their changed circumstances. She also has professional experience supporting people living with long‑term conditions such as multiple sclerosis.

Charlotte is interested in how adult thoughts and behaviours connect to childhood experiences. She often looks at those links so people understand why they react in certain ways, and then works with them on practical steps to change those patterns. She has lived experience of family members with autism and ADHD, and a particular interest in parenting and the transition to parenthood.

She has worked with people from many countries, with different faiths or no faith, and with neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+ and non‑binary individuals. Outside sessions she sometimes shares worksheets or replies to emails when that fits a client's agreed way of working. Booking and initial steps are arranged through the directory's process.

How Charlotte uses ACT and client‑centred work online