About Karen
Karen Ball is a counsellor with 13 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and she welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck or unsure about next steps. She aims to make the first move easier and to offer steady support while people sort out what matters to them.
Karen offers a calm, listening approach where people can talk about anxiety, stress, depression, loss and trauma.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationships, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and self-esteem. Practical issues such as career changes, parenting strains and coping with life transitions are part of her practice too. Her work combines different approaches to suit each person.
She uses client-centred listening to understand what someone needs. Cognitive behavioural ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new ways of coping. Mindfulness can be added to help with stress and grounding.
Karen trained on a BSc (Hons) course in integral counselling and has experience offering supervision and training for other counsellors. She also draws on motivational interviewing and existential ideas when they fit the client's concerns. Creative therapy is available for people who find it hard to put feelings into words.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging so people can choose what suits them. Karen works collaboratively, helping people identify options and take manageable steps towards change.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and building understanding; the therapist follows the person's lead and helps them name what matters. This approach helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to make sense of feelings and decisions.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people try new behaviours. It is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems and unhelpful thinking patterns that keep difficulties going.
Mindfulness work teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce overwhelm and improve focus. It is often used alongside other approaches to support stress management and emotional regulation.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and will suggest approaches that fit the person's needs. Decisions are made together so the work matches what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face contact when that is helpful. Phone sessions can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat or text messaging can work for those who prefer writing or need a more flexible way to fit therapy around work or caring commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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