About Karen
Karen Ball is a counsellor with 13 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and brings a calm, steady presence to one-to-one work. She aims to make a difficult first step feel more manageable and practical for people seeking help.
Her background includes training at Anglia Ruskin University where she completed a BSc (Hons) in Integral Counselling. That course covered a range of therapeutic models and informed a flexible style.
How Karen works
She combines different approaches to suit each person's needs rather than relying on a single method. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what a person wants to change. She helps people talk through stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and relationship concerns, as well as loss and trauma.
Practical tools are offered alongside space to reflect and make decisions. Karen also works with issues such as self-esteem, parenting strain, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and career-related worries. Additional areas of focus include attachment and adoption-related concerns, long-term health and caregiver stress, and body image worries.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She uses client-centred listening alongside methods drawn from cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and motivational interviewing. This mix supports clearer thinking, coping strategies and forward movement.
People who prefer a counsellor who listens, asks straightforward questions and offers usable steps often find her approach helpful. Sessions are offered online in a range of formats to fit different routines and needs.
Karen lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Karen works with
The areas below are the ones Karen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centred therapy is built around careful listening and reflecting what a person says. It helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter most to them, which suits worries about self-esteem, relationships and life choices.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and teaches small, practical steps to shift them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress and problems with sleep or eating.
Mindfulness work offers simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and increase focus. This approach can help with anxiety, anger and adapting to life changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk about goals and preferences and try different ways of working until a good fit emerges. That process is collaborative and paced to the individual.
Online formats give practical options for fitting therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is needed, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing reflection and people who prefer writing to talking. These options support flexibility so therapy can match day-to-day routines.
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