Charlotte Johannes

I have sporadic availability online and in person throughout the week.

I provide a safe, inclusive, anti-racist, queer-affirming, neurodiverse-positive space for healing. Using a psychodynamic approach, I work creatively with writing, imagery, and unconscious exploration to help you process the past, break stuck patterns, and create meaningful change.

My ideal clients are people who feel marginalised in multitudes of ways. Those who are struggling within our capitalist societal pressures, those who have experiences of racist trauma, intergenerational trauma, those who have experienced homophobia, transphobia and mysogny. Clients who have attachment issues and dysfunctional family dynamics and experiences of abuse. My approach is psychodynamic, with a strong focus on early experiences, unconscious dynamics, and intergenerational influence. Alongside this, I offer a creative, intuitive way of working — using writing, imagery, metaphor, and visual tools where words may not be enough

I offer a supportive space to explore how past experiences—including those shaped by family history and systemic inequality—affect your life today. My approach draws on relational and depth-based therapies to help you understand patterns, process emotions, and reconnect with yourself in a way that feels empowering and affirming of your identity.

My approach is psychodynamic, with a strong focus on early experiences, unconscious dynamics, and intergenerational influence. Alongside this, I offer a creative, intuitive way of working — using writing, imagery, metaphor, and visual tools where words may not be enough. This can help clients access deeper insight and emotional clarity. I use ritual and clients can bring in art work that can help access ancestral and cultural connection.

I believe therapy should be a space where you feel safe, understood, and gently challenged. My practice is warm, inclusive, queer-affirming, neurodiverse-positive, and actively anti-racist, with a particular interest in supporting people of colour and those with marginalised identities.

I provide a holding space to explore. Trauma is dealt with gently and defences are challenged empathically, with emphasis on the right pace for the client. I encourage creativity and playfulness that is specific and nuanced to each client. I view therapy as a collaborative process, where meaningful change emerges through the relationship we build together.

If this resonates with you, I welcome you to get in touch for a first conversation.

I provide a free initial 15 minute online or telephone consultation that can help to determine if we are going to proceed working together.  Alternatively we can begin working together and have a full paid rate 50 minute session at £60. This can provide more in-depth experience of what working together is like. I will send an online assessment form, which will be completed before our first session together. This assessment asks some background questions about family and reasons for coming to therapy.

The first few sessions are like drawing a blueprint of who you are. I investigate your family dynamics and the reasons and issues that have brought you to seek therapy.