About Carol
Carol Hounslow is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and low mood. She supports clients dealing with relationship tensions, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, and worries about self-esteem and life changes. Carol also works with concerns such as anger, obsessions and compulsions, and difficulties linked to attention and focus.
She trained with a degree in Person-Centred Counselling and holds BACP registration. Carol describes her style as calm, patient and kind.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and human, with time to talk and reflect without pressure. In practice she uses a mix of approaches. Client-Centred work keeps the conversation focused on what matters to the person.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. Attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas are drawn on to understand how past relationships shape current feelings. Carol has around six years of experience and has worked in voluntary settings, including recent volunteer work at the YMCA.
She also has experience working with young people in school years 7 to 11 alongside her work with adults. Her sessions are offered in English and she sees people across the United Kingdom as well as international clients.
Therapy can be arranged in formats that suit a busy life, and the subscription model used by the service allows flexibility around scheduling and continuity.
How Carol's approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and ways of relating to others. Online work using this approach can help with worries about trust, closeness and relationship patterns by looking at repeated emotional responses and where they come from.Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judging and follows what matters most to the client, which can be especially helpful when someone needs space to make sense of anxiety or life changes.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is practical and goal-focused. In remote sessions CBT can be used to identify unhelpful thoughts, test them out and practise new coping strategies between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Plans can be adapted over time so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during short breaks. Live chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins and people who prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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