About Karen
Karen Robson helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing relationship or family difficulties, grief, trauma, eating concerns, ADHD and intimacy-related issues. Karen is a BACP counsellor with 13 years of practical experience in the United Kingdom.
She adopts a client-led style and adapts to what each person needs. Sessions are conversational and focused on what matters now. Karen uses clear, practical techniques to help people understand their feelings, thoughts and triggers.
How Karen works
Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, mindfulness and solution-focused methods alongside motivational interviewing. That mix helps people reduce unhelpful thinking, build coping skills and set achievable goals. She will also use creative activities when these suit a person’s way of working.
Her background includes work across many settings and a range of presenting concerns. This has involved supporting people with bereavement, substance issues, trauma and stress-related problems. Karen aims to help people become more self-aware and take steps towards positive change.
Sessions typically focus on practical next steps and learning tools that can be used between meetings. The tone is non-judgemental and accepting, with an emphasis on collaboration. People who want someone straightforward and supportive to talk things through often choose her.
Karen lists 5 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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 Karen’s approaches work online
Karen uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress and many daily struggles because it focuses on practical steps and clear skills.She also draws on Client-Centred Therapy, which means sessions are respectful, warm and led by the person’s concerns. This approach helps people feel heard while they work out what matters and set personal goals.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Karen will discuss different ways of working and choose techniques together based on goals, preferences and what feels useful in sessions. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less data and can fit into a short break, live chat is useful for quick check-ins and text-based messaging can support day-to-day reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and life commitments.
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