Charles Bassett

My current hours are: 

Monday 0900  to 1800

Tuesday 0900 to 1800

Wednesday 0900 to 1200 

With over twenty-five years experience I offer the support, guidance and skills needed to assist others in facing and overcoming the difficulties and struggles inevitable in our lives. I view counselling as a journey; walking with others in exploring sources of the emotional pain and suffering that is way too common for so many, and as important, guiding them in applying practical skills and techniques that will enable recovery and moving toward the potential they may have lost sight of. Counselling is about renewing hope that healing is possible and that better days are coming.

I was Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Oklahoma, which is a qualification required to practice as a counsellor with each state overseeing the professional standards. Now, having recently moved the UK, I am a registered member of British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP).

Qualifications:

Master of Community Counselling, BA Social Work

At this time all my work in online providing more flexibly, saving time and effort to have to take time out to travel.  

I also am a strong believer in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which will help you to identify and challenge unproductive patterns of behavior and unhelpful thinking that can perpetuate your struggles and stressors and then assist you in learning and applying practical skills and techniques that will enable you to move toward healing and wholeness. 

I also like to use Schema Based Therapy which will explore sources of your unhealthy core beliefs that may have affected how you define yourself and how this may be affecting the various relationships in your life.

To put it simply, my approach is to look at what you can do differently in responding to your current struggles and difficult emotions, and look at how you can think differently, that's challenging thought patterns that often feed our negative emotions, and then I like to look at the whys, 'why am I struggling with this stuff.' This is looking at deeper issues that may have lead to your struggles. 

It can be difficult to reach out and ask for help, but that is the first step to moving forward towards a better future.  The initial session will explore your recent struggles, some background and then explore what goals you might want to focus on.  

I use the platform Problemshared as a safe and proven means to offer online therapy.  You can explore the platform and problemshared.net