About Carly
Carly Donovan is a counsellor who helps people manage stress and anxiety and work through relationship and intimacy concerns. She also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, career worries, low self-esteem and a range of anxiety-related problems. Carly presents herself as a calm, respectful presence for people ready to make a change.
She uses a person-focused way of working that centres on each individual's experience and goals. Sessions are shaped around what matters to the person rather than a fixed script.
Background and approach
Carly aims to listen carefully, reflect what she hears and help people notice options they might not have seen before. Carly combines client-centred principles with ideas from existential therapy. That mix helps when people are facing big questions about meaning, identity or life transitions alongside anxiety or relationship strain.
Conversations often cover both practical coping and how choices fit with personal values. Her background includes three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Carly offers a compassionate, non-judgemental approach and adapts her style to suit each person.
Typical concerns she supports include panic attacks, obsessive or compulsive thoughts, social anxiety, postpartum depression, jealousy and forgiveness work. Carly also works with issues linked to autism and Asperger syndrome, communication problems and domestic violence-related impacts. People can expect clear, straightforward conversations and collaboratively set goals.
Carly encourages small, doable steps and practical strategies alongside deeper reflection about meaning and relationships.
How her approaches translate to online work
Carly uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on the person in front of her. That approach means she listens carefully, mirrors what she hears and helps the person decide what they want to change. It can be useful for anxiety, self-esteem and relationship concerns where feeling heard matters.She also draws on existential therapy, which looks at personal meaning, responsibility and life choices. This helps when people face big transitions, identity questions or a sense of being stuck alongside symptoms of anxiety or panic.
Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. Carly will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, pace and preferences. The plan can evolve as the work continues and as what helps becomes clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video suits in-depth conversations and non-verbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, childcare or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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