About Karen
Karen McClurkin is a counsellor who uses an integrative style to help people manage stress and anxiety. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and brings seven years of experience to her work. Karen aims to build a respectful, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what is hard for them.
Her first priority is forming a strong therapeutic relationship. That gives people room to look at current problems or issues from the past.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person, combining different methods to meet individual needs. Karen works with a wide range of concerns. These include relationship difficulties, grief, low self-esteem, addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, sleeping problems, anger and bipolar-related challenges.
She also supports people facing life change, ADHD, and other specific worries such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image and chronic illness. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns. She uses client-centred listening to let people lead the pace and focus.
Cognitive and behavioural techniques are offered to help manage unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping skills. People can expect straightforward language and a practical focus. Karen offers help for both recent problems and longer-standing concerns.
She aims to work collaboratively so each person can find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Karen blends attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural therapy to help people understand their reactions and build practical coping tools. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationship patterns shape current feelings and behaviour, which can be useful for anxiety and intimacy issues. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small experiments to change routines and reduce distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen discusses options with each person and adapts methods to match their needs, goals and preferences. That means decisions about technique and pace are made together rather than imposed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or not being on camera helps. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, day-to-day support or when writing things out feels clearer. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the same therapeutic aims.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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