About Caroline
Dr. Caroline Norman helps adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss, or the impact of difficult childhood experiences. She is straightforward and calm in sessions.
She talks with people about what is happening now and where the pain began, then works with them to find practical ways forward. Caroline trained in a range of approaches and blends them to suit each person. She draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, person-centred ideas, and psychodynamic thinking to offer both short-term and longer-term work.
How Caroline works
Sessions can focus on managing symptoms, changing unhelpful patterns, or making sense of past events that still affect day-to-day life. She has twelve years of clinical experience and has worked in the NHS and the personal sector. Her background includes roles as a psychotherapist, addictions counsellor, and a clinical lead supervising other therapists.
She also holds a PhD in sociology and research qualifications in social research. Caroline has substantial experience in online work and has provided telephone, video and text-based therapy for over nine years. She supports people with issues such as relationship strain, grief, addiction, parenting concerns, chronic health challenges, low self-esteem and work-related stress.
Her style is reflective and practical. She listens for patterns in how someone relates to themselves and others, and then offers exercises, talking work and gentle challenges. People meet her to better understand themselves and to build everyday skills for coping and change.
Caroline lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Caroline works with
The areas below are the ones Caroline 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online conversations can help people spot repeating relationship themes and practise new ways of relating to others and themselves. Client-centred therapy focuses on being heard and understood; it uses empathic listening and reflection to help someone feel safe enough to talk about difficult experiences. Cognitive behavioural therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical tasks to change unhelpful habits or manage symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will discuss goals and preferences and agree a plan together. That might be focused CBT-style work for short-term goals, or deeper psychodynamic and attachment exploration over a longer period. The choice is collaborative and reviewed as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for more in-depth sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, written reflection or people who find typing easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work from different locations.
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