About Karen
Karen Bowie supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, addictions, grief and depression. She also helps with relationships, intimacy-related concerns, parenting pressures, career stress and coping with major life changes. Karen is a BACP counsellor with six years of counselling experience and a background that includes voluntary and organisational roles.
Her approach is warm and straightforward. She aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what is worrying them.
How Karen works
Karen listens openly and without judgement. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and on practical ways to cope day to day. She uses attachment-focused work to look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
That can be useful for worries about commitment, abandonment and intimacy. Psychodynamic ideas are used to notice repeating patterns and to understand where feelings come from. Client-centred techniques form the foundation of sessions, so the person remains at the heart of the process.
Trauma-focused methods are also used when past painful experiences are affecting daily life. Together these approaches guide a calm exploration of difficult feelings and memories. People who come to Karen can expect a steady, patient style and a focus on building self-understanding.
The aim is to help people find clearer choices and better ways to cope. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Karen offers a straightforward, supportive beginning to that work.
Karen lists 4 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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 used in online therapy and how they help
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can gently explore fears around abandonment, commitment and intimacy while building more supported ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work, giving space to be heard and to make choices about what to focus on. This approach helps with stress, low self-esteem and day-to-day coping by following the person's pace and priorities.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. The counsellor will work collaboratively to decide whether attachment, client-centred or trauma-focused ideas fit best. That decision is based on the person's needs, goals and preferences and can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family life and other commitments. Registered or accredited professionals can tailor session length and format to what works practically and emotionally for each person.
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