About Carole
Carole Ward is a psychotherapist with 17 years of experience. She holds NCPS accreditation and works online with people across the United Kingdom and internationally. Carole describes her practice as a vocation and aims to help people make lasting changes to how they feel and cope.
She draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to help people talk through relationship patterns and build on personal strengths. Mindfulness techniques are used to help manage stress and anxiety in everyday life.
Background and approach
She also uses eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing to address trauma where appropriate. Carole has worked in many settings, including hospices, refuges, supported mental health wards, prisons, learning disability services and charities. That background means she is used to supporting people with complex needs, grief, chronic illness, addiction and compassion fatigue.
Practical goals are a frequent focus in sessions. She helps people with low self-esteem, motivation, career questions and managing life changes. Sessions can include coaching-style work alongside therapy when that suits someone’s aims.
People who choose Carole can expect a respectful, down-to-earth approach. She emphasises that clients are the experts in their own story, and works collaboratively to find what helps. Getting started is a simple online process with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling by availability.
How her approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how past and current relationships affect feelings and responses. Online sessions use this approach to help people notice patterns, repair ways of relating, and build more helpful connections in everyday life.Client-centred therapy centres the conversation on the person’s own experience. The counsellor listens without judgement, encourages reflection and helps people access their own strengths to deal with stress, anxiety or life changes.
EMDR, or eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, targets traumatic memories that continue to cause distress. In an online setting this can be guided through careful pacing and specific bilateral stimulation techniques adapted for remote work to reduce the intensity of disturbing memories.
Carole treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss options, try methods that fit the client’s goals, and adjust the plan as progress is reviewed. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or health needs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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