About Charm
Charm Tinn is a counsellor with 15 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and supports people facing a range of mental health and life challenges. Charm writes simply and directly, and she aims to help clients take practical steps toward feeling steadier and more confident.
She has worked with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression and grief.
How Charm works
She also supports people who are coping after trauma or abuse, and those struggling with eating concerns and low self-esteem. Her background includes helping people manage relationship and family difficulties, parenting strain, career stress and major life changes. Charm uses a mix of approaches that focus on the person and their goals.
She draws on client-centred work to build trust and on cognitive behavioural ideas to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Motivational interviewing is used to strengthen commitment to change, and psychodynamic and trauma-focused ways of working inform her understanding of deeper patterns.
In sessions she aims to create space for clients to talk, be heard and try new ways of dealing with problems. She tends to set clear, practical steps when clients want them, and to reflect on past patterns when that will help move things forward. She describes the client as the expert in their life and offers support as a collaborative companion.
She offers appointments online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a person chooses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Charm lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Charm works with
The areas below are the ones Charm selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Charm's approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and the person's own goals. In practice this means sessions begin by following the client's lead, helping them name concerns and decide what to work on next. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression and eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Charm will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and life circumstances and then suggest which methods to try. That choice is made collaboratively and can be adapted over time if something isn't helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options help people access therapists from wherever they are and arrange sessions that fit their day.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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