About Carey
Carey Buchanan draws on person-centred and evidence-informed methods to help people sort through emotional pain and relationship strain. She is a BACP counsellor with 17 years of experience and offers a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what’s worrying them.
Carey keeps language straightforward and practical so parents can read quickly on a phone and decide if they want to proceed. Carey works with common issues such as stress, anxiety and depression.
How Carey works
She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related problems, grief, trauma and compassion fatigue. Practical concerns like sleeping difficulties, career stress and low self-esteem are part of her practice too. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centred ways of working.
That means sessions often focus on spotting unhelpful patterns, trying small changes, and deepening how people relate to themselves and others. She adapts methods to match what a person needs in the moment. Carey has a background in NHS services and independent practice and has worked across social care settings.
This experience means she is comfortable with both short-term practical work and longer conversations about deeper patterns that come from family of origin or past losses. Sessions may include talking, practical exercises to try between meetings, and checking in on progress each time.
Carey aims to make therapy feel manageable and useful, helping people build skills for coping with life changes and reconnecting with what matters to them.
Carey lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Carey works with
The areas below are the ones Carey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses straightforward exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It often helps with low mood, sleep problems and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and can be helpful when intimacy, abandonment or family of origin issues are central.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and then try methods that seem most helpful. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be adapted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging can fit around busy days or provide quick reflective notes between meetings. Many people find online formats make it easier to fit therapy into parenting or work routines while still getting consistent support.
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