About Karen
Karen Barnitt is a counsellor with thirteen years of experience who offers a calm and welcoming space for people seeking help. She is a BACP member, which means she follows the professional standards set out by that UK body. Karen aims to make it easy to talk about difficult things and to feel heard without judgement.
Her work is client-centred. That means sessions are shaped around the person in front of her rather than a fixed formula.
Background and approach
People come for many reasons including anxiety, depression, stress and issues linked to past trauma. Karen also supports those dealing with relationship strains, parenting pressures, addictions and career stress. She draws on trauma-focused approaches when past events continue to cause distress.
Karen uses practical exercises and conversational techniques to help people build coping skills and manage strong emotions. Narrative therapy is part of her toolkit too, helping clients look at the stories they tell about themselves and make changes to those narratives. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical.
Some meetings focus on short-term goals like managing anxiety or building strategies to get through a difficult period. Others look at longer patterns and how to change them over time. Karen keeps updating her skills and adapts methods to each person's needs.
She works with adults in the United Kingdom and offers a warm, steady approach for people ready to take the next step towards feeling better.
How Karen's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding the person's experience and responding with empathy and respect. Online, this looks like sessions where the counsellor listens closely, reflects back what she hears and helps people set goals that feel right for them. Narrative Therapy helps people examine the stories they tell about themselves and notice alternate ways of living. In remote sessions this can involve talking through key scenes, writing exercises and noticing the language used to describe difficult events. Trauma-Focused Therapy aims to reduce the impact of past distress by working at a pace the person can manage and using techniques to build coping skills. Delivered online, it combines careful conversation with practical tasks between meetings.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Karen will work with each person to decide which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the way she works as people progress, so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth supports it. Phone sessions can be a good option when someone needs a shorter check-in or has lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing, want brief moments of support, or need a flexible way to fit sessions into a busy day. These options make it easier to access therapy from across the UK and to choose what fits a person's life and routine.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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