About Carmen
Carmen Castillo is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and major life changes. She works with individuals dealing with trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, sleep problems and self-esteem struggles. Carmen offers calm, non-judgemental support in English and Spanish.
She invites people to explore how past experiences shape current patterns. Carmen uses conversation and guided reflection to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. She focuses on practical steps to build self-care, self-compassion and healthier routines.
Background and approach
Carmen blends several approaches to suit each person. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to address thinking patterns and on mindfulness to help people manage stress and strong emotions. Attachment-based thinking helps her look at how early relationships affect present connections.
Her work is collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Sessions are straightforward and aim to make change feel manageable. Carmen also pays attention to cultural background, sexual orientation and gender identity when these matters are relevant to someone’s story.
Carmen has a BACP qualification and around ten years of practice in the United Kingdom. She is experienced supporting people with issues such as chronic illness, codependency, immigration stress, compassion fatigue and grief. Her style is warm, grounded and focused on helping people find clearer ways forward.
Approaches and online support that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting tangled in them and choose actions that match their values. It can be helpful for anxiety, low mood and coping with difficult life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. This approach often helps with sleep problems, anxiety, anger and mood difficulties.
Attachment-Based work explores how early relationships shape current responses to closeness and trust, which can support people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues or feelings of abandonment.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will work collaboratively with each person to decide what feels most useful. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting plans so therapy aligns with personal goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care with a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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