About Karen
Karen Crooks is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, addictions and relationship or family concerns. Karen takes a calm, respectful approach and aims to help people make small, useful changes in daily life.
She frames clients as experts in their own story and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions are conversational and practical.
Background and approach
Karen aims to help people feel heard and to find steps that feel achievable. Her approach draws on mindfulness to bring attention to the present moment. She uses motivational interviewing to help people clarify what matters and to find their own reasons for change.
Solution-focused techniques are used to set clear, realistic goals and track progress. Although relatively early in her professional career, Karen brings three years of experience working with these concerns. She holds BACP recognition, which is noted as her credential.
She offers support to people across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients who prefer online work. Sessions can cover a wide range of everyday problems such as sleeping and eating difficulties, parenting strain, coping with life changes, anger, intimacy issues and chronic health stress. The focus is on practical steps, clearer thinking and building routines that make life easier to manage.
Approaches you can try online and how they help
Mindfulness Therapy encourages paying attention to the present moment in simple, structured ways. It can ease racing thoughts, reduce reactivity to stress and help with sleep and anxiety symptoms. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to talk about change. It helps people weigh options, find motivation and move towards goals at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your concerns, discuss options and try methods that suit your goals and preferences. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let you see facial cues and body language, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, written reflection and flexible scheduling. These formats aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit around home, work and travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- 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
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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