Meet Beau
(pronounced Bo)
When I was in primary school, my mum came home from parents’ evening with a story that she still tells, even to this day. One of my teachers said:
“One day, Beau will grow up to be a doctor or a therapist.”
— Mrs Anderson, Year 4
At the time, it made perfect sense. I kept plasters in my pockets the way other kids kept marbles, and I’d wander the playground looking for scraped knees or bruised pride.
That was the beginning.
A new way of seeing; that people carry far more inside them than they know how to say, and that sometimes all anyone needs is a space where their truth can land.
Today, I’m the founder of The Charles Practice and an MBACP-accredited psychodynamic therapist and supervisor.
My work is shaped by my own lived experience as a queer, non‑binary person, and by an intersectional feminist lens that keeps me awake to the forces (personal, cultural, structural) that shape our inner worlds. Identity, desire, belonging, power: these are not abstractions to me. They are the texture of everyday life, and they show up in the therapy room with remarkable clarity.
I specialise in working with gender identity, sexuality, and the many ways relationships take form, including LGBTQIA+ and ENM constellations. I don’t ask people to translate themselves or shrink the parts that feel too big, too complicated, or too tender. I believe therapy becomes transformative when honesty is met with safety, when complexity is allowed, and when the stories we’ve inherited stop being the stories we unconsciously repeat.
I have always been drawn to the places inside people where something truer is trying to emerge.
My role, whether with clients or therapists, is to create a space where that truth can breathe, be met, and grow.
If my work has a through-line, it’s this:
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Level 7 Supervising in Counselling Psychology
Advanced Clinical Practice in Couples Therapy
Post Graduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Therapeutic Counselling
Level 3 Counselling Concepts
BSc Psychology Degree
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I am an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) - member ID 165382
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2025 – Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
2025 – Psychological Distress Among Black, Gay, Bisexual & MSM – Implications for Therapeutic Practice
2025 – Black Minds Matter – The Impact of Colour Blindness in Therapy
2024 – COSRT – Kink – Affirming Psychosexual & Relationship Therapy
2024 – COSRT – Focus on Female Infertility
2023 – COSRT – Physical Causes of Vulvodynia & the Impact on Sexual Relationships
2023 – Life Coaching Diploma
2022 – Queering Therapy Space & Working with Gender Diverse Clients
2021 – New Rules of Love with Esther Perel
2021 – Narcissism, Gender Roles & Psychopathy
2020 – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
2020 – Masterclass on Sleep Problems
2020 – The Neuroscience of Addiction
2020 – The Body Keeps the Score – Trauma Training
2019 – Working with the Couple Dynamic – Sexual Dysfunction, Communication & Conflict & Vision for the Future
2019 – Working with the Couple Dynamic – Chaos to Calm
2018 – Working with Transgender Identified Partners
2018 – Safeguarding
2018 – Working with Sleep Cycles
2018 – Working with Long-term Health Conditions
2018 – Working with Young People and Gambling Additions
2017 – Working with Grief
2017 – Working with Addiction
2016 – Sexuality & Gender in the Therapy Room
Send me a message
If you’re considering therapy or supervision, you can contact me here to ask questions, explore availability, or arrange a session.