About Carryn
Carryn Williams meets people where they are and helps them untangle feelings that feel overwhelming. She welcomes anyone who is worrying about stress, anxiety, low mood, relationships, or feeling not quite themselves. Sessions are practical and simple, aimed at finding small changes that reduce daily strain.
Carryn uses client-centred ways of working that put each person’s experience first. She listens for what matters most and helps people name thoughts and feelings so they stop feeling so tangled.
How Carryn works
Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas are used to look at patterns in close relationships and how emotions shape behaviour. Hypnotherapy is offered as another tool to support habit change and reduce anxiety symptoms. Her approach is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
People are invited to come without a diagnosis or plan and work out the focus together. Carryn explains things plainly and focuses on achievable steps rather than jargon-heavy therapy talk. She has six years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Carryn practises from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. Carryn often helps people handle family and parenting pressures, grief and bereavement, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep problems, and coping with major life changes. She also supports those facing substance use concerns, body image and attachment-related struggles, and complex areas such as blended family dynamics or adoption and foster care matters.
Sessions can include talking, focused emotional work, or guided hypnotherapy, depending on what the person prefers and needs.
Carryn lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Carryn works with
The areas below are the ones Carryn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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 | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online with a counsellor
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It involves reflective listening, gentle questioning and helping people find their own answers. This approach is useful for stress, low self-esteem and general overwhelm.Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, looks at how emotions shape relationship patterns. It helps people recognise repeating cycles and try new ways of responding, which can ease conflict and improve emotional connection.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the person about goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as needs become clearer.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls mirror in-person conversation and allow visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, reflection between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to get regular support while balancing work, family and other commitments.
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