Charlie Bowyer
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About me
My name is Charlie and I am an experienced psychotherapeutic humanistic counsellor. I have an integrative background and have experience of working with complex trauma, narcissistic and abusive relationship breakdowns alongside addiction, depression, anxiety and PTSD. I have also worked extensively with neurodiverse clients in a creative university setting.
I offer a safe, non-judgemental, warm and reflective space for you to work through and start to understand what has brought you to therapy. I work relationally which means we look to find a goal or direction, exploring together patterns and behaviours with therapeutic interventions. I am able to offer a deep level of emotional attunement and understanding through both my training and lived experience.
I am trained in integrative counselling which means I can be flexible to your needs as therapy develops. I offer a Humanistic approach with Gestalt, person-centred, attachment theory, transpersonal (soul/purpose work) and others therapeutic tools.
I have a unique perspective of having faced and lived through much complex trauma, such as being care experienced, bereavement and being a young carer. I bring compassion and deep empathy to the work of exploring what has brought you to therapy seeking to support you on a journey to mental wellness.
I offer a free 30 minute consultation to explore what you might like to bring to therapy and answer any questions.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Qualified to Level 6 Counselling supervision, I trained with the Devon and Cornwall Counselling Hub (now Astranti Connect) I complete regular CPD and have comprehensive supervision regularly.
- Added training: NSPCC Child Safeguarding, DICES Risk training, Essential DBT Skills, Keeping Child Safe in Education, Intergenerational Trauma training.
Experience of working with PTSD, addiction, neurodiversity, intergenerational trauma and its long term effects, bereavement, BPD and relationship breakdowns.
I work with and have lived experience of boarding school, being care experienced and neurodiversity.
Currently I lead the counselling team in a creative University and alongside this have a small private practise.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I offer counselling and coaching support to help look back to look forward to the life you are looking to get to. I have found this approach works to scaffold growth, recognising what we can and can change, inviting a moving forward, self believe and confidence that that future is attainable.
Within my work I use a variety of different approaches to bespoke to therapeutic approach to you - navigating the map with you. I use a mind, body and soul holistic approach that clients have found useful and seen growth.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free 30 min initial telephone consultation.
My fees are currently £50 for a 50 minute session, this will be rising to £60 from April 1st.
Supervision and Therapy for Therapists offers £50 for one hour
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I work on a Friday and evenings throughout the week.
The is some flexibility for the occasional Saturday, this can be discussed.
