About Karen
Karen Young is a counsellor with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety and low mood. She also supports those facing relationship strains, parenting pressures and big life changes.
Karen uses a straightforward, warm manner in sessions. She stays alongside people while they sort out difficult feelings. She listens without judgement and aims to make talking feel easier.
Her approach is rooted in client-centred work, so the conversation follows each person’s priorities.
Background and approach
Karen draws on psychodynamic ideas to help spot patterns that repeat in relationships and feelings. She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify small steps that can lead to quicker relief. Sessions are practical and paced to the individual.
Karen works with issues such as grief, anger, self-esteem and workplace stress. She also offers support for more specific concerns including panic attacks, social anxiety, seasonal affective disorder and problems around commitment or separation. Karen is based in the United Kingdom and works in English.
Her style is open, empathic and supportive, aimed at helping people feel heard and find ways to cope. For many, the first session is about feeling understood and starting a plan that fits their life.
Approaches and online counselling options
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and making space for the person to lead the conversation. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and to explore what matters most to them. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at recurring patterns and how past experiences affect present feelings, which can be useful for relationship issues and repeated emotional difficulties. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, achievable steps and immediate goals to ease stress and build momentum towards change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the client’s needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments can be made as understanding grows.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are close to face-to-face talking, phone sessions can suit people with less bandwidth, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging works well for those who prefer writing. These options help people fit counselling around work, family life and travel, and make it easier to keep continuity of care when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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