About Carmen
Carmen Ramos Bolivar is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people coping with anxiety, stress, low mood and relationship concerns. She also helps with grief, self-esteem and motivation. She works in both English and Spanish and draws on six years of practice to offer steady, practical support.
Carmen believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into therapy. She listens closely and helps people notice what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, achievable steps that build confidence and resilience over time. Her approach blends evidence-informed methods with an empathetic, person-focused stance. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to look at thinking patterns and to try out new behaviours.
Mindfulness and acceptance ideas help people cope with difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. In sessions Carmen keeps language plain and practical. Conversations aim to identify clear goals, try helpful experiments between meetings, and review what works.
People often leave with simple tools they can use on stressful days. She has experience addressing a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, and family conflict. Carmen also supports people dealing with chronic illness, attachment wounds, infidelity and communication problems.
Her work emphasises collaboration, respect and building skills that fit everyday life.
How Carmen's approaches work online
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is about noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new behaviours. It often helps with anxiety, low mood and patterns that keep problems going. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on what matters most to a person and learning to move toward those values even when hard emotions are present. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and adjustment after loss.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carmen will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and life situation and then suggest ways to proceed. Decisions about methods are made together and can be adjusted as therapy moves forward.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and fuller interaction. Phone sessions use less data and can fit during a short break. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, reflection or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on practical change and connection.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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