About Karen
Karen King is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 11 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress alongside a wide range of life challenges. She uses a warm, respectful approach and believes people have strengths to draw on when life feels hard.
She helps people facing trauma and abuse, grief and loss, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and workplace stress.
Background and approach
Karen works with concerns such as panic attacks, obsessions and compulsions, and the effects of chronic illness or disability. Her way of working is collaborative and practical. Sessions often begin by hearing the client's story and identifying small, achievable steps.
Motivational techniques are used to help people find energy to change, and solution-focused ideas are used to set clear short-term goals. Karen draws on trauma-focused methods when past harm affects day-to-day life. She pays attention to emotional safety and pacing, and helps people make sense of difficult memories at a manageable pace.
She also supports clients exploring life purpose, burnout and compassion fatigue. She holds BACP registration, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat or messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then sessions are scheduled according to availability.
Approaches that shape online therapy
Karen blends Client-Centred Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy with practical coaching ideas. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own answers, which suits anyone feeling overwhelmed or unsure where to start. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people make sense of past harm and reduce its hold on daily life by working carefully through memories and reactions at a manageable pace.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences and how symptoms affect day-to-day life, then try methods that match those needs. Sessions can be adjusted over time so the approach fits what is actually helping you make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or hands-free check-ins, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family and health routines and let people choose the format that feels most manageable.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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