About Charnė
Charnė Buissinne uses client-centred work alongside structured approaches to help people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, addiction or grief. She draws on nine years of experience and a BACP registration. Her style aims to be practical and respectful of each person's pace.
Charnė keeps sessions focused on what matters most to the client. She combines gentle listening with active techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and solution-focused work. This helps people spot patterns, try small changes and measure what improves.
How Charnė works
She also incorporates emotionally-focused ideas when relationships or intimacy are involved. That approach helps people name feelings, repair ruptures and build clearer ways of relating. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is unsure about change or facing addictive behaviours.
Her background spans independent practice, hospitals, GP surgeries in the NHS and South Africa, addiction recovery services, educational settings and the criminal justice system. Those roles have informed a flexible way of working that adapts to different problems and life stages.
Charnė works with a wide range of concerns, including mood difficulties, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, parenting stress, ADHD and career-related worries. She offers sessions in English and Afrikaans and draws on the strengths clients already have when planning work together. People starting therapy complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions.
Charnė uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, so ongoing care can fit changing needs.
Charnė lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Charnė works with
The areas below are the ones Charnė selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English, Afrikaans |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Charnė’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. In practice this means the therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space and follows the client’s priorities to help them make sense of their experience. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and express strong emotions and improve how they relate to others, which can support intimacy and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and choose methods together. That collaborative process can include trying a technique for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera, live chat supports shorter check-ins and text messaging lets someone share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while using the same therapeutic methods a counsellor would apply in person.
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