About Karen
Karen Dodd is a BACP counsellor working in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. Karen also supports those coping with grief, low self-esteem, life changes and depression.
She has a background that includes time in a large corporate setting, so she understands work-related pressure and the shock of redundancy. That experience informs how she talks through career concerns and the balance between work and family life.
How Karen works
Karen also volunteers with a cancer charity and has supported people who are living with cancer and the effect illness has on those close to them. Her practice includes supporting parents with parenting strains and people living with neurodiversity who carry anxiety. She can also help with issues such as abandonment, attachment, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Karen works with a broad range of life events that can feel overwhelming on their own. Karen uses a mix of approaches in sessions and adapts her way of working to each person. Sessions are practical and centred on the person in front of her.
She focuses on listening, asking clear questions and trying techniques that fit the situation. She aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people are heard. Karen helps clients find motivation, rebuild confidence and develop coping strategies for day-to-day life.
Taking the first step is often hard, and she encourages people to start at a pace that feels manageable.
Karen lists 7 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- 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
- 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
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape feelings and expectations in current relationships. It can help when someone struggles with trust, fear of abandonment or repeating difficult patterns with others. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the person's lead. It is useful for building self-esteem, exploring feelings and finding personal direction. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, examines unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and offers practical steps to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals and personal preferences and suggest methods to try. That choice is reviewed as therapy progresses to make sure the approach fits the person's needs.
Online therapy is offered using video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls make it easier to see non-verbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work, live chat offers a written real-time conversation and messaging lets people check in between sessions. These options make therapy more accessible and help people fit support around busy lives.
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