Charlotte Brydon-Smith, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Charlotte Brydon-Smith

BS1
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Charlotte Brydon-Smith, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Charlotte Brydon-Smith

BS1
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My Approach

My approach is integrative, relational and grounded in a deep respect for people’s lived experience. I am interested in how we come to be shaped by what has happened to us, while remaining equally curious about what continues to live, move and seek expression through us.
I work in a way that acknowledges pain and difficulty without allowing them to become the whole story. Rather than focusing only on what is wrong or broken, I am attentive to what has endured, including desire, creativity and the capacity for relationship. Therapy can become a place where these qualities are noticed, supported, and gradually strengthened alongside careful attention to what has been painful or overwhelming.
The therapeutic relationship is central to my work. I understand therapy as a process that unfolds between two people, where patterns can be felt and explored as they arise in the present moment. This relational focus allows new ways of being to emerge, gently and over time, both with oneself and others.
I also pay close attention to the body and to present-moment experience. Sensations, emotions and subtle shifts can offer important information that sits beneath words and stories, helping us understand how experience is held and how change becomes possible.
I aim to offer an environment that is spacious, thoughtful and human, where there is no pressure to perform, explain or get things right. Therapy with me is not about becoming someone else, but about coming into a fuller, more honest relationship with who you already are.

About Me

I am an integrative psychotherapist and UKCP-registered practitioner, offering therapy in Bristol and online across the UK. I work with adults who are experiencing emotional difficulty, life transitions, or a sense of feeling stuck, overwhelmed or disconnected from themselves.

My approach is grounded, relational and trauma-informed. I am interested not only in what we think and feel, but also in how our experiences live in the body. In our work together, we may gently explore bodily sensations, emotional patterns and present-moment experience, alongside reflection and dialogue. This can help bring awareness to deeper processes beneath the surface of everyday life.

I aim to offer a therapeutic relationship that is compassionate, spacious and honest. I believe that meaningful change happens through being met with curiosity and care, rather than being judged or “fixed”. Therapy with me is collaborative, and we move at a pace that feels respectful and safe.

I welcome clients from all backgrounds and identities. People often come to see me when they are navigating relationship difficulties, anxiety, low mood, loss, questions of identity, or a desire for greater meaning and vitality in their lives.

Alongside my clinical practice, I have many years of experience teaching and supervising in therapeutic and educational settings. This informs my work, but my primary focus in therapy is always on you and what you bring.

I work with

  • Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

I work with anxiety, chronic stress and emotional overwhelm, particularly where these are linked to difficulties with regulation and feeling settled in the body. Rather than focusing solely on symptom management, I am interested in understanding the underlying processes that contribute to anxiety and supporting clients to develop greater capacity for self-regulation, resilience and ease.
I am not loving the word "problems" here. I have a strong interest in working with questions of identity and sense of self. This includes times when people feel lost, fragmented, disconnected, or unsure who they are becoming. My work supports clients to explore identity with curiosity and compassion, particularly where these questions are linked to life transitions, relational experiences, or a loss of meaning or direction.
Relational work is central to how I practice, and I have a special interest in relationship difficulties and repeating patterns. This includes attachment wounds, communication struggles, and the impact of early relational experiences on adult intimacy. I am interested in how these patterns emerge in current relationships and how they can be explored and gently reworked within the therapeutic relationship itself.
I have particular experience supporting people through separation and relationship endings. This may include the emotional impact of loss, grief, and disorientation, as well as the reorganisation of identity, family structures and future hopes. I offer a space where the complexity of separation can be explored with care, allowing both pain and the possibility of new ways of being to emerge.
I work with the impact of trauma without reducing people to what has happened to them. Alongside acknowledging pain, rupture and loss, I am interested in what continues to exist beyond these experiences, including creativity, desire, agency and the capacity for relationship. My approach holds trauma as part of a person’s story, while also supporting the rebuilding and reclaiming of a fuller sense of self.

Types of Therapies Offered

  • Core Process Psychotherapist
  • Mindfulness Based Psychotherapist

Types of sessions

  • Face to Face - Long Term
  • Face to Face - Short Term
  • Online Therapy

Office

The Practice Rooms
55 Queens Square
BS1 4LH
United Kingdom (UK)

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Office

The Practice Rooms
55 Queen Square
City Center
BS1 4LH
United Kingdom (UK)

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UKCP College

  • Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC)
Charlotte Brydon-Smith

Charlotte Brydon-Smith

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