About Charles
Charles Bihum is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 35 years of experience. He speaks directly and calmly to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. He also brings personal perspective to LGBT issues and related topics.
Charles invites a practical, goal-focused way to begin feeling better. Charles starts by helping people spot the problems that keep them stuck. He focuses on clear, manageable steps rather than long explanations.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify small changes that bring relief and momentum. That practical focus helps people move from merely surviving toward enjoying life more. He draws on long experience supporting people through mood problems, midlife transitions, and career-related strain.
He also works with concerns like body image, codependency, commitment issues, and the emotional impacts of divorce and separation. His practice includes work around gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS, and non-normative relationship styles such as polyamory and kink culture. Charles describes his orientation as solution-focused.
That means sessions concentrate on what people want to change and how to get there. He encourages realistic goals, experiments between sessions, and adjustments based on what works. Clients who prefer a down-to-earth, step-by-step approach often find this style useful.
People can expect a straightforward conversation about expectations, strengths, and next steps. Charles emphasizes building trust so clients can talk about painful memories and current challenges. His aim is to help people uncover hope and practical ways to move forward.
Approaches that guide online work and practical change
Charles uses solution-focused techniques that center on concrete goals and small steps to try between sessions. This approach helps people break problems into manageable parts and test changes quickly to see what improves daily life.He also draws on evidence-based methods for mood and anxiety work, using structured conversation to identify patterns and introduce skills that reduce distress. Those techniques help people notice unhelpful thinking and build new habits for coping with stress and low mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Together they adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and achievable.
Online formats are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between appointments. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English