Charlie (Charlotte) O'Brien Griffiths

I work with clients who come to my private therapy practice looking to make a change in themselves or their lives.

I work within a Hypno-Psychotherapeutic framework incorporating Clinical Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness, Gestalt Therapy, Behavioural Therapy and CBT, The Emotional Freedom Technique, Person Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling, Psychodynamic and Transactional Analysis.

Trauma informed practice is at the core of my ethical practice and I have recently completed a certificate in ‘Treating Trauma Safely and Effectively’. I am able to utilise these trauma informed approaches to support clients who wish to work through issues resulting from domestic abuse and narcissistic relationships.

- I am been a regular contributor to the SMILE app who offer mental health support for chronic conditions
- I work therapeutically with clients from the Food Therapy Clinic, London
- I have been a volunteer counsellor for Frontline 19 who support NHS frontline workers
- I attend regular CPD, attend clinical supervision and peer supervision and am working towards my UKCP full accreditation.

During my time as a freelance media professional and broadcaster I worked as a presenter, voice over artist, writer, blogger and journalist for numerous companies both here and abroad.

A selection of companies worked for and with:

CHANNEL MUM - contributor and presenter (2015-2019)

During my time with Channel Mum I worked in a number of ways within their content production team. I worked as an on screen presenter discussing issues related to families and motherhood. I also worked closely with content management teams and senior management to create relatable content for brands including Boots, Pampers and Iceland.

Creating successful content for large trusted brands also involved a large degree of teamwork liaising with both internal and external stakeholders, producing content with very tight deadlines and producing both video and audio content to a very high broadcast standard.

SKY NEWS CONTRIBUTOR - Talking head contributor on Sunrise (2016)

BABYCENTRE UK - blogger and contributor (2015-2018)

RADIO ONE MALLORCA - radio presenter (2013 - 2017)

FREELANCE VOICE OVER ARTIST - for many clients including H&M and TK Maxx

During this long period of time I held various positions including Broadcast Journalist, News Editor, Regional News Editor and Breakfast Show Presenter

BROADCAST JOURNALIST 2006-2008 - Reporting, producing, news reading for Invicta FM which then became Heart. Also producing news for Gold and XFM.

REGIONAL NEWS EDITOR 2008 - 2011 - After being promoted to News Editor, I was quickly promoted again to Regional News Editor, looking after the news output for Global Radio across Kent, Sussex and Surrey. During this time I won 'EDF Energy Journalist of the Year'.

I also produced and read news right across the Global network nationally covering Heart, XFM, Choice, LBC, Gold and Capital.

As well as broadcast duties I was also responsible for staff recruitment and retention, staff training and HR issues, managing of team of freelance journalists, managing a tight budget and being a part of the senior programming team across the South East as well as being an integral part of the national news management team.

BREAKFAST SHOW PRESENTER 2011-2014 - I co-hosted the Heart breakfast show in Kent for 4 years. In that time we were Sony award nominated and had some of the highest figures the show had ever seen.