About Carmen
Carmen Matthews is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, and supports those facing relationship and family difficulties. Carmen believes people know their own stories and brings a practical, respectful approach to sessions.
She works with people who have experienced trauma and abuse, as well as those dealing with grief, low self esteem, depression and career strain.
Background and approach
Carmen also addresses matters such as abandonment, attachment issues and communication problems. Her style aims to make therapy feel manageable from the first meeting. Carmen uses a mix of approaches so conversations stay focused on what matters most to each person.
She blends client-centred listening with goal-focused techniques when helpful. This means sessions move between exploring feelings and trying small, practical changes. Many clients find it reassuring to have clear steps to try between meetings.
Carmen supports people to experiment with coping strategies and to notice what helps in day-to-day life. She also offers space to reflect on deeper patterns that may be keeping problems repeating. Entering therapy can feel daunting and Carmen works to build trust at a steady pace.
She aims to make sessions a place for self-care and constructive change. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Approaches and how online therapy can help
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on being heard and understood. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps the person develop their own solutions, which can be useful for anxiety and self esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers practical exercises to try between sessions and helps people reduce unhelpful thinking patterns that feed stress and anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carmen will talk through goals and preferences and then decide, collaboratively, which methods to use. That might mean more listening at times and more structured tools at others, depending on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and choice in how sessions happen. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions suit people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflection or when someone wants shorter, more frequent contact. All these formats make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life and to maintain continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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