About Karen
Karen Murdock is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She also helps with trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, low self-esteem and anger. Karen draws on a range of approaches and aims to create a practical, steady space for people to talk and make change.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Sessions are adapted to what each person needs in the moment. Karen listens closely to life stories, then suggests ways to build emotional awareness and daily coping skills.
Background and approach
She keeps language simple and focuses on realistic steps that fit everyday life. Karen uses ideas from client-centred work to make sure the person feels heard and understood. She brings in cognitive behavioural techniques to help with unhelpful thinking and routines.
She also draws on psychodynamic thinking to look at deeper patterns that repeat over time. She has experience supporting people living with chronic pain, chronic fatigue and long-term health conditions. That experience informs how she thinks about practical demands, family pressures and work strain when planning sessions.
Karen aims to balance emotional insight with useful strategies for day-to-day living. Karen holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has four years of professional experience. She offers sessions in English from the United Kingdom using a mix of online and phone formats.
New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Approaches that suit online therapy and everyday life
Client-centred work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and builds trust so they can explore difficult feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical steps to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Psychodynamic ideas pay attention to recurring patterns from earlier life and how they affect choices today; this can help when problems keep reappearing over time.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan so the work feels useful and manageable over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when discussing emotional material matters. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short updates, brief coaching or when someone needs a lower-intensity option between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to access a therapist from different locations and times, helping people keep continuity of care while balancing work and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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