About Karen
Karen Yuen is a BACP registered counsellor with eight years of practice in NHS Direct, community low-cost services and spiritual settings. She offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression and major life changes. Karen writes plainly and listens attentively so clients can name what is worrying them and start to untangle it.
Her work draws on a client-centred way of talking together, trauma-focused ideas and EMDR when appropriate.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on making sense of how upbringing, family and past events shape current thoughts and feelings. Karen helps people spot unhelpful patterns and gently try out different ways of thinking and behaving. She pays attention to cultural background and how that affects values, expectations and coping.
As a British East Asian woman who has lived in several countries, Karen uses that perspective to help people understand the cultural side of their struggles. Multicultural concerns and women's issues are supported as focus areas. Practical tools are part of sessions when useful.
She can offer breathing exercises, simple mindfulness, body awareness, role play and visualisation to help manage symptoms in day-to-day life. Therapy can be short term or longer depending on individual needs. Karen combines clinical study with life experience and ongoing professional development.
She works with adults aged 18 and over and conducts sessions in English in the United Kingdom. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and book according to her schedule.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centred work means the counsellor follows the person's lead, listens closely and reflects back what matters. Online sessions use that same simple conversation style to help people identify feelings, needs and practical next steps. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, is a trauma-informed method that can reduce the intensity of distressing memories; in online sessions it involves guided attention and focused processing to help people reprocess past events. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding how past harm affects current life and on building skills to manage strong reactions and triggers.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as therapy progresses. Clients and the counsellor check in regularly to make sure the direction still fits and to try alternatives if needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from different places. Phone sessions suit those who prefer not to use video or need a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, journalling between sessions or when a written format feels easier. Together these formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel while keeping the therapeutic work consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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