About Charles
Charles Bugh is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 29 years in mental health and addiction work. He practices in Indiana and brings long experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, addiction, mood concerns, and relationship struggles. He focuses on clear, practical steps people can use right away.
He favors cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also uses motivational interviewing to support people working through substance use and behavior change.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are included to help calm strong emotions and improve focus. Charles draws on many years in crisis and emergency settings, including emergency medicine and rescue work, which shaped his calm, direct style. That background informs how he helps people manage panic, trauma reactions, and compassion fatigue.
He can talk through coping strategies for big life changes and grief. Sessions aim to be straightforward and solution-oriented. Clients can expect a mix of skill teaching, feedback, and collaborative planning.
He also addresses intimacy, parenting strain, career questions, and issues connected to alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink when they arise. Therapy works through regular meetings where goals are set and progress is reviewed. Charles offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort level.
He works in English and practices as an LMHC in Indiana.
Practical approaches for online work
Charles uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. He also uses motivational interviewing to support people who want to change addictive behaviors or build new habits; this approach focuses on the client's own reasons and readiness for change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to pick methods that match goals, life circumstances, and personal preferences. Goals are reviewed regularly and approaches are adjusted if something isn't working.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and teaching skills, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English