About Karen
Karen Bannerman welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or relationship difficulties. She writes simply and directly, and she aims to make first steps feel manageable. People often come to her when life changes become hard to cope with or when grief, trauma or addiction feel too heavy to carry alone.
With 25 years of professional experience, she draws on a range of approaches to match each person’s needs.
How Karen works
Karen is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which she uses as a framework for ethical practice and ongoing development. She offers sessions in English and works with adults in the United Kingdom. In sessions she focuses on helping people talk about what matters and notice patterns that keep problems going.
Practical strategies and short-term goal work sit alongside deeper exploration of past relationships and attachment. Mindfulness techniques and cognitive tools are used when they suit the person’s goals. Karen aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can make small changes that add up.
She will suggest other services or specialist agencies if she thinks that would better meet someone’s needs. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different routines and preferences. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
Karen lists 8 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online working
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and closeness. It helps when trust, rejection or fear of abandonment make relationships painful. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and helping the person lead the pace of change. It is suited to people who need space to be heard and to find their own answers. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, offers practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and can ease anxiety, low mood and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether to emphasise short-term tools, deeper exploration of attachment, or a mix of methods that feels right for the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls allow more conversational contact and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments, and to maintain continuity when life is busy.
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