About Otis
Otis Carey is a counsellor with more than 12 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. He helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship strain, anger and low mood. He recognises that seeking help takes courage and aims to offer steady support through that early step.
Otis believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to their work in therapy. He uses that starting point to help people make changes that feel manageable.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and clear conversations rather than jargon or long lectures. In practice he works with a wide range of difficulties including trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems and parenting pressures. He also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, coping with life changes, and matters connected to family breakdown and separation.
Otis has experience across additional areas such as abandonment, communication problems, codependency, and neurodiversity concerns including autism and Asperger Syndrome. His background includes helping with personality-related difficulties and co-morbidity where more than one issue overlaps. He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - and brings a straightforward, collaborative style to sessions.
People can expect clear listening, practical tools, and a focus on what will help them most in day-to-day life.
Therapeutic techniques and online sessions
Otis draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer thinking. One common approach involves structured tools and skills for managing anxiety and stress, such as paced breathing, activity planning and step-by-step problem solving to reduce overwhelm and restore routine.Another approach centres on working through difficult emotions linked to trauma, grief or relationship loss by helping people name feelings, notice patterns, and develop safer ways of responding. This work aims to reduce reactivity and build steadier coping over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will discuss options with each person and agree on methods that suit their goals and preferences. That collaborative planning makes it easier to try techniques and adjust if something does not fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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