About Karen
Karen Martin is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She works with adults facing trauma, addiction, loss or the search for greater purpose. Karen aims to help clients find steadier routines and clearer ways of coping.
She uses a straightforward, talk-based style that focuses on increasing self-awareness and emotional regulation. Karen draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centred principles to follow each person’s pace and priorities. Attachment-based ideas shape how she approaches relationship and intimacy issues. This can help people understand patterns that affect closeness and trust.
Karen blends these perspectives to tailor sessions to a client’s concerns and goals. Her listed credential is BACP, which indicates membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has four years of professional experience working with adults on a range of issues from depression to sleeping difficulties.
Sessions can include practical strategies and gentle reflection. Karen aims to help people build stability and prepare for life changes, guiding them toward solutions they can use outside sessions. She works collaboratively and keeps sessions warm and respectful.
Practical therapy approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people live in line with their values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for stress, anxiety and life changes by teaching practical skills for taking meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers clear tools for reducing anxious thinking and improving mood. It is often used for anxiety, depression and sleeping problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current intimacy and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify what fits a person's goals and preferences. Sessions can blend methods and change over time so that the work matches current needs and progress.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and travel, and make it easier to keep continuity when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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